• Captain John Davis (born 1784 in Surrey, England) was an American sailor and seal hunter from Connecticut, United States. It is thought that he may have...
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  • entrepreneur John Davis (sealer) (1784–1???), English-born American who claimed to have first set foot on Antarctica John Bunnell Davis (1780–1824), English...
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  • Adare on 24 January 1895. It is possible that the Anglo-American sealer John Davis achieved this feat 74 years earlier, on 7 February 1821, but his journal...
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    the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Captain John Davis, the English-born American sealer who claimed to have made the first recorded landing on...
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  • Miles Davis, Vol. 2 is the fifth 10-inch LP by trumpeter Miles Davis, recorded on April 20, 1953 and released on Blue Note later that year—his second session...
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  • The Gap Sealer is an album by saxophonist Jimmy Heath featuring performances recorded in 1972 and originally released on the Cobblestone label but rereleased...
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    likely just over a year later when English-born American Captain John Davis, a sealer, set foot on the ice. Several expeditions attempted to reach the...
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    disasters. The first was the 1914 Newfoundland Sealing Disaster, when 132 sealers were stranded on an ice floe, resulting in 78 deaths. The second was in...
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    Canadian sealers in a hotel on Magdalen Islands over Sea Shepherd's history of attacks on sealing and whaling ships. Sheen negotiated with the sealers while...
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    probably just over a year later when English-born American captain John Davis, a sealer, set foot on the ice. The basic geography of the Antarctic coastline...
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