{"id":89814,"date":"2023-02-26T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/?p=89814"},"modified":"2024-02-26T12:50:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T19:50:46","slug":"nathaniel-palmer-1799-1877","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bonvoyage.ireneeng.com\/?p=89814","title":{"rendered":"Nathaniel Palmer, 1799-1877\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nathaniel Brown Palmer (August 8, 1799<\/a> – June 21, 1877) was an American seal hunter and ship designer, among a few other things he did well.<\/p>\n

He was born and raised in Stonington<\/a> CT, a descendant of Walter Palmer (1585<\/a>-1661), one of the town’s founders, who also was the founder of Charlestown<\/a> (the oldest neighborhood in Boston).<\/p>\n

One of his adventures was to explore Antarctic<\/a> in 1820, in his 47′ long sloop Hero<\/em>. For vision comparison, my kayak is 12’6″ long<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Palmer Land (wiki<\/a>) in Antarctica, is named after him.<\/p>\n

Capt. Palmer was a major clipper ship designer and China trader, selling seal skin which was favored by the Chinese.<\/p>\n

We visited his house in Stonington<\/a> in 2021.<\/p>\n

There is Stonington Island<\/a> in Antarctic<\/a>, named after him when he saw the Antarctic Peninsula<\/a>, the northernmost part of mainland Antarctica\u00a0on 1820.11.17 on his sloop<\/a> \u5355\u6845\u5e06\u8239\u00a0Hero<\/em><\/a>. That area would be known as Palmer Land nowadays (wiki<\/a>: Graham Land in UK, O’Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Mart\u00edn in Argentina). Stonington Island (wiki<\/a>) was used as the site for the East Base of US Antarctic Service Expedition (1939<\/a>-41).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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