Edward Bransfield (c. 1785 – 31 October 1852) was a Royal Navy officer who served as a master on several ships, after being impressed into service in...
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Bransfield is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Edward Bransfield (c. 1785–1852), Irish sailor and naval officer Kitty Bransfield (1875–1947)...
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Rothera Research Station (section New Bransfield House)
named after the former BAS ship RRS Bransfield, itself named after the Irish sailor and explorer Edward Bransfield. There is a link corridor to the garage...
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Mount Bransfield (63°17′S 57°5′W / 63.283°S 57.083°W / -63.283; -57.083 (Mount Bransfield)) is a prominent conical-topped, ice-covered mountain, 760...
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created by William Reid Clanny. 1820: Trinity Peninsula discovered by Edward Bransfield. Modern meat curing and the Bacon Rasher were invented by Henry Denny...
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Berry Edward W. Bingham Olav Bjaaland Alfred Björling Carsten Borchgrevink Jon Bowermaster Henry Robertson Bowers Louise Arner Boyd Edward Bransfield Philip...
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of Deception Island was by the British sealers William Smith and Edward Bransfield from the brig Williams in January 1820. It was first visited and explored...
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Bransfield Strait or Fleet Sea (Spanish: Estrecho de Bransfield, Mar de la Flota) is a body of water about 100 kilometres (60 mi) wide extending for 300...
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Caledon Shipbuilders Ltd, Leith. She was the second vessel named after Edward Bransfield RN (1785-1852), who discovered the north west coast of the Antarctic...
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Argentinian Esperanza Base. It was first sighted on 30 January 1820 by Edward Bransfield, Master, Royal Navy, immediately after his charting of the newly discovered...
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Coast of Tower Island. The island was named on 30 January 1820 by Edward Bransfield, Master, Royal Navy, who described it as a round island. A number...
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needed] Richard Bettesworth, lawyer and politician[citation needed] Edward Bransfield, reputed (disputed) discoverer of Antarctica, was born in Ballinacurra...
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sighted for the second time by Irish-born British Royal Navy captain Edward Bransfield in the Williams. July – Botanist Edwin James becomes the first recorded...
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vessel under the command of Edward Bransfield in the presence of Smith observed the mainland Antarctica – Mount Bransfield in the very north of Antarctic...
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or its ice shelf was long thought to have been the British sailor Edward Bransfield, a captain in the Royal Navy, who discovered the tip of the Antarctic...
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from the original on 10 January 2016. Retrieved 4 February 2011. "Edward Bransfield". Unsolved Murders. Archived from the original on 9 September 2021...
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Larger ships skippered by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Edward Bransfield had reported sighting land earlier in 1820. Along with English sealer...
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January 1820, the islands were surveyed and mapped by Lieutenant Edward Bransfield on board the Williams, which had been chartered by the Royal Navy...
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Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev on (28 January), Edward Bransfield on (30 January), and Nathaniel Palmer in (November). Some of Davis'...
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Island was sighted in January 1820 by a British expedition under Edward Bransfield, and so named by him because penguins occupied the shores of the island...
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Island and Peter I Island in Antarctica in 21–28 January 1821. 1820 – Edward Bransfield with William Smith as his pilot – on 30 January 1820, sight Trinity...
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Joinville Island group (redirect from Bransfield Island)
6 km; 3.5 mi) southwest of D'Urville Island. The name Point Bransfield, after Edward Bransfield, Master, Royal Navy, was given in 1842 by a British expedition...
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Prince of Wales is next used. January 30 – British Royal Navy captain Edward Bransfield, an Irishman, in the Williams is the first person to positively identify...
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covered by small hillocks. Three days later, on 30 January 1820, Edward Bransfield and William Smith, with a British expedition, were the first to chart...
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Larry Bowa, Lawrence Robert Bowa (1970–1981): "Gnat" Kitty Bransfield, William Edward Bransfield (1898–1911): "Kitty" Pat Burrell, Patrick Brian Burrell...
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24722°W / -69.35778; -2.24722. Meanwhile, on 30 January 1820, Irishman Edward Bransfield sighted Trinity Peninsula, the northernmost point of the Antarctic...
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the expedition was briefly code named Operation Bransfield, after Royal Navy officer Edward Bransfield. The Forces mail address Naval Party 475 was allocated...
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Jones concluded that Bellingshausen, rather than the Royal Navy's Edward Bransfield on 30 January 1820 or the American Nathaniel Palmer on 17 November...
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Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, is opened. 1820 – Edward Bransfield sights the Trinity Peninsula and claims the discovery of Antarctica...
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Islands; the following year sights "Banks Land" (Banks Island). 1820 – Edward Bransfield sights the Antarctic Peninsula; also discovers northernmost islands...
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