Journal Of A Voyage To The Northern Whale-fishery

The article discusses the Journal of a Voyage to the Northern Whale-fishery written by William Scoresby junior. Scoresby was an explorer, scientist, and Church of England clergyman who first traveled to the Arctic at the age of ten. He spent twenty summers at a Greenland whale fishery and made significant discoveries in Arctic geography, meteorology, oceanography, and magnetism. The book, first published in 1823, details Scoresby's voyage to Greenland in 1822 on the Baffin, a whaler of his own design. He charted a large section of the coast of Greenland and includes descriptions of scientific observations and geographical discoveries in his narrative. The appendices contain lists of rock specimens, plants and animal life, and notes on meteorological and other data.

William Scoresby junior (1789-1857), explorer, scientist, and later Church of England clergyman, first travelled to the Arctic when he was just ten years old. The son of Arctic whaler and navigator William Scoresby of Whitby, he spent nearly every summer for twenty years at a Greenland whale fishery. He made significant discoveries in Arctic geography, meteorology, oceanography, and magnetism, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1824. First published in 1823, this book recounts Scoresby's voyage to Greenland in the summer of 1822 aboard the Baffin, a whaler of his own design. On this journey, his penultimate voyage to the north, he charted a large section of the coast of Greenland. His narrative also includes descriptions of scientific observations and geographical discoveries made during the voyage, and the appendices includes lists of rock specimens, plants and animal life, and notes on meteorological and other data.