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Charles Wilkes’s flagship, USS Vincennes, in Disappointment Bay in January 1840 during the search for Antarctica. (Charles Wilkes)
Charles Wilkes’s flagship, USS Vincennes, in Disappointment Bay in January 1840 during the search for Antarctica. (Charles Wilkes)