John Davis
Male, Deceased Person
1784 –
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Who is John Davis?
Captain John Davis was a seal hunter from Connecticut, USA who captained men who may have been the first to have set foot on Antarctica on 7 February 1821 shortly after the first sightings of the new continent by Fabian von Bellingshausen, Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev, Edward Bransfield and Nathaniel Palmer.
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- Born
- 1784
Surrey - Nationality
- United States of America
- England
- Profession
- Lived in
- Connecticut
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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