bransfield

Just several days after Bellingshausen’s first sighting, a British expedition, led by Edward Bransfield (and captained by William Smith), spotted from their ship several distant mountains standing on the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula. They had returned to the area of the New South Shetlands, discovered (after having been blown off course in the Drake Passage) and named by Smith a year earlier in February 1819.  The first substantiated landing on the Antarctic mainland was not made until 1895.