John Biscoe (28 April 1794 – 1843) was an English mariner and explorer who commanded the first expedition known to have sighted the areas named Enderby...

RRS John Biscoe may refer to the following British survey ships: RRS John Biscoe (1944), in use 1944–1982 RRS John Biscoe (1956), decommissioned in 1991...

Biscoe may refer to: Biscoe (surname) Tyndale Biscoe School, CMS Tyndale Biscoe Memorial High School in Srinagar India Antarctica Biscoe Bay Biscoe Point...

multi-instrumentalist Donna Biscoe (born 1955), American actress John Biscoe (1794 - 1843), nineteenth-century English explorer John Biscoe (MP) (1613-1672), English...

the abandoned British base. In February 1952, the FIDS survey ship, John Biscoe, arrived with equipment and stores to rebuild the fire-damaged base....

RRS John Biscoe was a supply and research vessel used by the British Antarctic Survey between 1956 and 1991. An earlier vessel, RRS John Biscoe (1944)...

named by him for John Biscoe, who may have landed there in February 1832. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Biscoe Bay 64°48′0″S...

Dependencies Survey under the name SV John Biscoe. She was briefly renamed Pretext when another ship was assigned the John Biscoe name, before being sold to the...

during February and March 1831 by John Biscoe's Antarctic expedition and given the name Cape Ann, probably after Biscoe's wife. Mawson proposed that the...

Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey team unloading supplies from the John Biscoe to rebuild its damaged base. Following the Argentine show of force, the...

William Murdoch, first officer of Titanic John Biscoe, English mariner and explorer, who often sailed as first mate John Paul Jones, who was a first mate at...

weapons manufacturer Tula (brig), ship of the English mariner and explorer John Biscoe (1794–1843) Tula pryanik, type of Russian gingerbread Tula, pink Hoob...

(all RIBs of various size). It is situated next to the Biscoe Wharf (named after the RRS John Biscoe). There is a hydraulic crane to lift the boats in and...

In 1947 the Survey purchased their first vessel, which was named MV John Biscoe, and in 1953 the same ship was granted Royal Research Ship status. Since...

conflict ended in a stalemate. In 1952, British soldiers aboard the warship John Biscoe landed on the peninsula to reoccupy a defunct base near a newly-established...

heads of a British Antarctic Survey team unloading supplies from the John Biscoe. The Argentines later extended a diplomatic apology, saying that there...

The explorer John Biscoe in the brig Tula searched for the Nimrod Group without success in 1831 during the Southern Ocean Expedition. John King Davis,...

Mendez-Biscoe Islands is a series of islands, of which the principal ones are Renaud, Lavoisier (named Serrano by Chile and Mitre by Argentina), Watkins...

first documented in western and eastern literature in February 1831 by John Biscoe aboard the whaling brig Tula, and named after the Enderby Brothers of...

Enderby Land by John Biscoe in February 1831, discovery of Kemp Land by Peter Kemp in 1833 and discovery of Balleny Islands by John Balleny in 1839....

Lander and his brother John descend the Niger for more than 643 kilometres (400 mi) from Bussa to its mouth. 1831–32 – John Biscoe discovers Enderby Land;...

Marguerite Bay. They were charted by the Hydrographic Survey Unit from RRS John Biscoe in 1966, and were named for Petty Officer Brian E. Harvey, the surveying...

led by John Biscoe, an English sealer; circumnavigates the continent, sets foot on Anvers Island, names and annexes Graham Land, discovers Biscoe Islands...

of Mt Creak. Both features are named after HMNZS Endeavour (formerly John Biscoe), supply ship to the 1957 N.Z. Northern Survey Party. 76°27′00″S 161°58′00″E...

Mount Biscoe is a distinctive black peak, the easternmost and largest of two ice-free rock massifs located 6 km south-west of Cape Ann on the coast of...

photographed Cape Ann and confirmed it to be the headland recorded by John Biscoe in 1831. Unknown to the BANZARE crew, the Norwegians had also made aerial...

William Scoresby (1926) RRS Discovery II (1929) RRS Shackleton (1955) RRS John Biscoe (1956) RRS Discovery (1962) RRS Bransfield (1970) RRS Charles Darwin...

In 1830, the English whaling company Samuel Enderby & Sons appointed John Biscoe master of the brig Tula and leader of an expedition to find new seal-hunting...

portion of the peninsula. The next confirmed sighting was in 1832 by John Biscoe, a British explorer, who named the northern part of the Antarctic Peninsula...

Sir James R. G. Graham, First Lord of the Admiralty at the time of John Biscoe's exploration of the west side of Graham Land in 1832. It is claimed by...