biography
pronunciation:
[wedl]
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| lived:
| (1787–1834)
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| biography:
| Navigator, explorer, and seal hunter, born in Ostend, NW Belgium. He undertook three voyages to Antarctica in the sealing brig Jane, in the third of which (1822–3) he penetrated to the point 74°15 S by 34°17 W in that part of Antarctica which later took his name (Weddell Sea, Weddell Quadrant). A type of seal from this area is also named after him. |
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