William Smith was the English captain who discovered the South Shetland Islands, an archipelago near Antarctica. In 1819, while sailing cargo on "Williams" from Buenos Aires to Valparaíso, he sailed further south round Cape Horn in an attempt of catching the right winds. On 19 February 1819 he spotted the new land at 62° West but did not land on it. The naval authorities did not believe his discovery, … Wikipedia
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