
SEEMANN (BERTHOLD) Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Herald During the Years 1845-51, Under the Command of Captain Henry Kellett... being a Circumnavigation of the Globe, and Three Cruises to the Arctic Regions in Search of Sir John Franklin, 2 vol. in 1, FIRST EDITION, Reeve, 1853
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SEEMANN (BERTHOLD)
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Seemann was, together with Sir John Richardson, the naturalist on this primarily hydrographic survey of the Pacific. Until 1848 the expedition surveyed most of the west coast of the Americas, the Bering Strait and Kamchatka, the Galapagos Islands and Hawaii, making several land explorations in South America. In 1848 the expedition was ordered to join the search for John Franklin. On this second passage through the Bering Strait Seemann sailed in company with the Captain Moore in H.M.S. Plover, discovered Herald Island, made a remarkable sledge journey from Kotzebue Sound to St. Michael, Alaska, and undertook a voyage through the Aleutians. Captain Henry Kellett, leader of the expedition, left no record of the voyage so that Seemann's account, based on his own notes and that of fellow officers, is the most complete extant.