Edmond Halley - explorer. (the comet's namesake was also an 18th century explorer sailing as far as Antarctica)

From: History Today | Date: June 1, 1996| Author: Seymour, Ian | Copyright information

Halley's voyages from 1694 to 1701 where for scientific pursuits and not for finding trade routes or for exploitation. He went as far north as Newfoundland and as far south as Antarctica with considerable hardship. He mapped variations of the earth's magnetic field. In 1742, he died at age 86.

Edmond Halley is best known by the comet that bears his name, but at the turn of the eighteenth century he was also involved in some intriguing cloak-and-dagger voyages of exploration. Ian Sey...

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