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	Beyond Endurance
		Bransfield was born in Ballinacurra in 1785 and was recruited into the Royal Navy at the age of 18.
		In 1815 - at the age of 30 - Edward Bransfield was appointed to the highest rank available to him, that of master on board the Andromache under the command of Captain WH Shirreff.
		Edward Bransfield died in 1852 at the age of 67 and was buried alongside his wife in Brighton.
	www.irisheverest2004.com /beheroes.html (3044 words)

	Edward Bransfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Edward Bransfield (1785 – 1852) was a master in the Royal Navy and arguably the discoverer of the continent of Antarctica.
		Edward Bransfield was born in Ballinacurra, County Cork, Ireland, in c.1785.
		Bransfield landed on King George Island and took formal possession on behalf of King George III (he died on 30th January 1820), before proceeding in a south-westerly direction past Deception Island not investigating or charting it.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edward_Bransfield (1194 words)

	Edward Bransfield: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Edward Bransfield was born in Ballinacurra, County Cork, in 1785.
		Bransfield and his fellow crewmates must have considered their new post a remote and backward spot.
		Bransfield, who had no doubt in his mind that he was standing on the long-sought southern continent, made a note in his log of two "high mountains, covered with snow." One of these peaks has been named Mount Bransfield in his honour.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/ed/edward_bransfield.htm (819 words)

	Guardian \| Belated honour for Antarctic explorer
		Edward Bransfield, the long-forgotten British explorer who discovered Antarctica, is to be honoured nearly two centuries on, with a stamp commemorating his exploits.
		Born in Ireland circa 1785, Bransfield was master or navigator aboard HMS Andromache, based at Valparaiso, Chile, when a whaling ship arrived with news of land much further south than shown on existing maps.
		Bransfield commandeered a whaling brig, the Williams, and charted the South Shetland Islands, which lie near the Antarctic peninsula.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4048522-103690,00.html (286 words)

	The Boston Herald: Edward Bransfield, 81, of S. Natick, teacher.(Obituaries)(Obituary)@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Edward J. Bransfield of South Natick, a retired Natick teacher and manager of the Wellesley Inn, died Thursday at MetroWest Medical Center in Natick following a lengthy illness.
		Bransfield was a longtime resident of South Natick.
		Bransfield was employed as a teacher at Natick High School for more than 30 years and was also the cross country and indoor and outdoor track coach.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:79762966&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (203 words)

	World History Blog: Edward Bransfield RN
		The 'family folk history' suggests that Edward was 'prest' while sailing in a small boat with his brother William off the coast of Co. Cork.
		Such a background suggests that Edward would have come from a family of adequate means with regard his education and it is quite likely that he must have been engaged in some employment before his enforced employment with His Majesty's Navy.
		In support of the 'adequate family means' theory is that Edward's Education must have been sufficient to equip him to advance in his Naval career; from the lowliest rank, to being given immense responsibilty at the highest rank available to him.
	world-history-blog.blogspot.com /2004/11/edward-bransfield-rn.html (446 words)

	Edward Bransfield - Encyclopedia.com
		Edward Bransfield 1795-1852, English sea captain and antarctic explorer.
		Bransfield was a longtime resident of South Natick...
		Bransfield was employed as a teacher at Natick...
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Bransfie.html (697 words)

	Palmer Station Timeline 1965-75
		Also in 1819, Edward Bransfield headed south in the Royal Navy ship Williams to explore the South Shetland Islands, which accompanying navigator William Smith who had first discovered them the year before.
		Bransfield sighted the Antarctic Peninsula on 1/30, 3 days after Bellinghausen's first look at the continent.
		Mary Alice McWhinnie was accompanied by her research assistant Phyllis Marciniak; the two were the first women to work in the Antarctic aboard the Eltanin.
	www.palmerstation.com /history/6575/6575.html (2822 words)

	RRS Bransfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This was after the final voyage of the Bransfield and she was then sold in October 1999, destined for a beach in India or Pakistan to be scrapped.
		The logistics to operate and maintain the BAS stations is large and the Bransfield was the workhorse that carried everything, from toilet rolls and beer to scientific equipment and food, south from the UK.
		The 1998/99 season was to be the last for the Bransfield and she is being replaced with a newer vessel, the Polar Queen, to be renamed the RRS Ernest Shackleton.
	www.gm0hcq.com /Bransfield.htm (1098 words)

	Encyclopedia: Edward Bransfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Which is just as well, because you wouldn't want to park your car.
		Bransfield landed on King_George_Island and took formal possession on behalf of the Crown, before proceeding in a south-westerly direction to Deception_Island.
		Bransfield, who had no doubt in his mind that he was standing on the long-sought southern continent, made a note in his log of two "high mountains, covered with snow." One of these peaks has been named Mount_Bransfield in his honour.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Edward-Bransfield (301 words)

	Bransfield Family Genealogy Forum
		Bransfields of Portland, Ct - Amy Bransfield 4/18/04
		Bransfields in Newfoundland 1800 to pres - Christine 10/11/00
		Re: Edward Bransfield 1783-1852 - Suzanne Whyte Munroe 12/03/02
	genforum.genealogy.com /bransfield (234 words)

	Bransfield - Detailed Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		RRS Bransfield was named after Edward Bransfield, Master, RN (1785-1852).
		Bransfield was the first person to chart any part of the Antarctic mainland.
		The RRS Bransfield departed from the port of Grimsby, on the east coast of the United Kingdom, on the 17th October 1998 and did not return until early May 1999.
	www.dartcom.co.uk /bransfield/info.html (188 words)

	Antarctica History & Antarctica Culture \| iExplore.com
		Though writings of the ancient Greeks cryptically refer to a massive southern region of the world, the discovery of the "White Continent" is generally attributed to Edward Bransfield, a British naval officer.
		Bransfield discovered the northwestern coast of the Antarctic Peninsula on 30 January 1820 and called it Trinity Land.
		However, the land mass was first touched in the 1840s by a party of Norwegians, and it was the Norwegian Roald Amundsen who, on 14 December 1911, first reached the South Pole.
	www.africa.com /dmap/Antarctica/History (169 words)

	World History Blog: 11/14/2004 - 11/20/2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Edward Bransfield RN Edward Bransfield RN - Provides information about this man and his connection with Antartica.
		A.G.E. Jones 1966) that both Edward, and his brother William, were in fact English.
		After the death of his mother in June 1842, his father remarried and a further five sisters and two brothers were born.
	world-history-blog.blogspot.com /2004_11_14_world-history-blog_archive.html (2188 words)

	RRS Bransfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In selecting Bransfield as the name for the new vessel, the Director of BAS chose to honour a British explorer who had made a significant contribution to the discovery of that part of Antarctica in which British research activities were centred at the time, namely the Antarctic Peninsula.
		Bransfield commandeered a whaling brig, the Williams, and during 1819-20 discovered the north west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, roughly surveyed the South Shetland Islands and claimed King George Island and Clarence Island for Great Britain.
		Bransfield was the first man to chart part of the Antarctic mainland.
	www.antarctica.ac.uk /About_Antarctica/Heritage/rrs_bransfield.html (544 words)

	Hazards in the Bransfield Strait (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Bransfield Strait is about 200 miles long and 60 miles wide, lying between the Palmer Peninsula and the South Shetland Islands.
		It was named in honor of Edward Bransfield, who, in 1820, took a small brig named the Williams into the waters which now bear his name.
		In the ninety-six years between the time of Bransfield's discovery and that afternoon of April 9, 1916, when Shackleton's men threaded their boats through the ice, precious little had been learned about conditions in these unfrequented waters.
	www.carrollandgraf.com /shackleton/part_4/chapter_1_4.html (2254 words)

	ShalDril: April 7, 2005
		Ice covered shores glistened as the NBP was leaving the bay and heading south across Bransfield Strait.
		It was named after Edward Bransfield who circumnavigated the South Shetlands.
		Bransfield Strait provided a spectacular display of its ice, from bergy bits to icebergs many times the size of the Palmer.
	shaldril.rice.edu /journals/040705.html (305 words)

	Kitty Bransfield Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
		Kitty Bransfield was born on Thursday, January 7, 1875, in Worcester, Massachusetts.
		Bransfield was 23 years old when he broke into the big leagues on August 22, 1898, with the Boston Beaneaters.
		His biographical data, year-by-year hitting stats, fielding stats, pitching stats (where applicable), career totals, uniform numbers, salary data and miscellaneous items-of-interest are presented by Baseball Almanac on this comprehensive Kitty Bransfield baseball stats page.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=branski01 (298 words)

	AllRefer.com - Edward Bransfield (Explorers, Travelers, And Conquerors) - Encyclopedia
		Edward Bransfield 1795–1852, English sea captain and antarctic explorer.
		In 1820, Bransfield sailed from Chile to the South Shetland Islands off the N Antarctic Peninsula.
		After claiming King George Island for England, he ventured south, sighting and charting portions of the Antarctic continent.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/Bransfie.html (164 words)

	Falkland Islands Philatelic Bureau - British Antarctic Territory
		RRS Bransfield seen from the air alongside the fast ice of the Brunt Ice Shelf from which the point tractor trains transfer the cargo to and from Halley station.
		Both RRS Bransfield and RRS Ernest Shackleton depart from a UK port in October and return in early May. The first port of call is often Montevideo in Uruguay where fresh provisions are collected and from which it is only a four day passage to the Falkland Islands, where the vessels are registered.
		RRS Bransfield was built in 1970 by Robb Caledon of Leith as an ice-strengthened cargo ship and had her maiden Antarctic voyage in 1970-1971.
	www.falklands.gov.fk /pb/bat/ships.htm (791 words)

	Antarctic Voyages and Expeditions
		Best-known individuals of the period, in addition to Smith and Bransfield, include the Americans James Sheffield, Nathaniel Palmer, Benjamin Pendleton, John Davis, and Benjamin Morrell, the Britishers George Powell, James Weddell and Matthew Brisbane, Richard Sherratt, Robert Fildes, Edward Hughes, and Henry Foster, and the Australian Richard Siddins.
		Edward VII Peninsula was discovered during an eastward exploration of the Ross Ice Shelf in the first season.
		An Eastern Party, intending to explore Edward VII Peninsula, found Amundsen in the Bay of Whales, and, to avoid the Norwegians, headed for the Victoria Land coast, renamed themselves the Northern Party, and were left at Cape Adare where they spent the first winter doing research.
	www.antarctic-circle.org /rosove.htm (4233 words)

	Fathom Expeditions - Spirit of Shackleton
		Myth turned to reality, when Captain Edward Bransfield of the Royal Navy made the first sighting of the Antarctic Peninsula on January 30, 1820.
		As stated earlier, Bransfield and Bellingshausen are credited for first laying eyes on Antarctica.
		In the first 10 years of the 20th century, many significant ‘firsts’ were achieved, but perhaps the most sought after at that time, was the race to be the first expedition to reach the South Pole.
	www.fathomexpeditions.com /explorer/history/history.html (1980 words)

	Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/January 28 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Russian sources claim, that the first to discover Antarctica was the expedition mentioned above.
		the sentence Edward Bransfield of the Royal Navy landed on the mainland of Antarctica about Edward Bransfield, who is claimed first to discover Antarctica by Great Britain's sources is included in the section 30 January 1820.
		The line on Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen has a good chance of bumping off the line on Finnish Civil War from the 'Selected anniversaries' template.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Selected_anniversaries/January_28 (204 words)

	Bransfield Family Genealogy Forum (25 Latest Messages)
		Re: Edward Bransfield, RN, 1785-1852 - Sheila Bransfield 9/29/03
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		Edward Bransfield, RN, 1785-1852 - Sheila Bransfield 9/10/03
	genforum.genealogy.com /cgi-bin/latest.cgi?bransfield (200 words)

	SOUTH SHETLAND - LoveToKnow Article on SOUTH SHETLAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		S.E. of Cape Horn, between 61 and 63 10 S. and between 530 and 63 W., and separated by Bransfield Strait from the region composed of Danco Land, Palmer Land, Louis Philippe Land, andc.
		Revisiting it in October, he landed on King George I. Island, taking possession for England; he also gave the whole chain the name it bears.
		In 1820 the naval lieutenant Edward Bransfield was sent in the Williams to survey the islands, which attracted the attention of American and British sealers, and became fairly well known through the visits of Antarctic explorers.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SO/SOUTH_SHETLAND.htm (368 words)

	Orders
		Edward Bransfield RN By William Henry Sherreff Esq.
		You are to proceed to about the latitude of 62 S and longtitude 62 W to discover and ascertain the extent of the tract of Land there seen my M
		You will be most careful should you touch in any foreign Port, to conceal every discovery that you may have made during your Voyages, and for which reason you will have as little comminication with other vessels as possible.
	www.bransfield.org /Bits/orders.htm (378 words)

	Channel 4 Television - to the ENDS of the EARTH
		The Antarctic continent is sighted, but there are three contenders for the honour of who saw it first: Russian admiral Fabian von Bellingshausen, who circumnavigates it and visits nearby islands; Nathanial Palmer, an American sealing captain; and Edward Bransfield, a British naval officer.
		With Ernest Shackleton and Edward Wilson, Scott sledges south to 82ºS, discovering part of the Victoria Land mountain range.
		He is unsuccessful in his attempt to cross the Antarctic, but he and his 27 crew are famously trapped on the ice for 15 months and live to tell the tale.
	www.channel4.com /history/microsites/E/ends/shackleton6.html (795 words)

	Chapter 4. Antarctica in sight. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		While rounding Cape Horn on his way to Valparaiso in February 1819, Englishman William Smith was caught in a storm that blew his ship, the Williams, to the south and found the South Shetland Islands, which he immediately took in possession for England.
		On 30 January 1820 Bransfield saw, from a distance, the northwestern part of the Antarctic Peninsula.
		England says it was Edward Bransfield, the Americans stick to Nathaniel Palmer, while Russia insists it was von Bellingshausen.
	www.70south.com /resources/history/chapters/chapter4 (603 words)

	SOUTH SHETLAND - Online Information article about SOUTH SHETLAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Horn, between 61° and 63° ro' S. and between 530 and 63° W., and separated by Bransfield Strait from the region composed of Danco See also:
		England; he also gave the whole chain the name it bears.
		Edward Bransfield was sent in the " Williams " to survey the islands, which attracted the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SIV_SOU/SOUTH_SHETLAND.html (502 words)

	The Antarctic
		The Russian Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen, was the first person to see the Antarctic continent, January 27, 1820.
		Nathanial Palmer, an American sealing captain and Edward Bransfield, a British naval officeralso have claims to being the first to see the continent..
		Both Palmer and Bransfield mapped sections of the Antarctic peninsula.
	sio.midco.net /mapstamps/poles.htm (253 words)

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