There has been some uncertainty as to which of the two southerly probes, during which Bellingshausen passed latitude 69°S in early 1820, achieved the first sighting of an ice coast of Dronning Maud Land in Eastern Antarctica. The author criticizes Frank Debenham’s English translation of Bellingshausen’s narrative before presenting and discussing new translations of Bellingshausen’s descriptions of those events, with relevant sections of his track chart, plus a third passage from the book which interpreted what was seen. He concludes that the Russians first sighted an ice coast in mid-February, rather than late January as has been widely claimed.

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别林斯豪森的“山脉”：1820 年俄罗斯人发现南极洲和别林斯豪森的南极冰盖理论

1820 年初，贝林斯豪森通过南纬 69 度的两个南向探测器中的哪一个首次看到了南极洲东部 Dronning Maud Land 的冰海岸，目前还存在一些不确定性。作者先批评了弗兰克·德本汉姆对贝林斯豪森叙述的英文翻译，然后提出和讨论了贝林斯豪森对这些事件的描述的新译本，包括他的轨迹图的相关部分，以及书中解释所见内容的第三段。他的结论是，俄罗斯人在 2 月中旬第一次看到冰海岸，而不是像人们普遍声称的 1 月下旬。