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Edward Bransfield (c. 1785 – 31 October 1852) was an Irish sailor who became an officer in the British Royal Navy, serving as a master on several ships, after being impressed into service in Ireland at the age of 18.
Edward Bransfield (born c. 1785, Ballinacurra, Ireland—died 1852, Brighton, England) was an Irish-born English naval officer believed to have been the first to sight the Antarctic mainland and to chart a portion of it.
The man who discovered Antarctica: Edward Bransfield explained – the first man to find and chart the Antarctic mainland. Sheila Bransfield. 2019. Barnsley: Frontline Books. xviii + 318 p. illustrated, hard cover.
Edward Bransfield was one of the first to discover Antarctica in that he was one of the first to set eyes upon the continent rather than offshore islands or attached ice sheets.
It was 30 January 1820 and Edward Bransfield, an accomplished navigator from Cork, had made the first sighting of the desolate mainland of Antarctica.
Edward Bransfield’s pioneering voyage of discovery of 1819/1820 was the result of a chance encounter on the high seas almost a year earlier by Captain William Smith, a merchant seaman in command of the cargo ship, Williams.
Edward Bransfield, 1795–1852, English sea captain and antarctic explorer. In 1820, Bransfield sailed from Chile to the South Shetland Islands off the N Antarctic Peninsula . After claiming King George Island for England, he ventured south, sighting and charting portions of the Antarctic continent.
