births
August 24, 1787
James Weddell, Belgian-English sailor, hunter, and explorer (died 1834)
James Weddell
James Weddell was a British sailor, navigator and seal hunter who in February 1823 sailed to latitude of 74° 15′ S—a record 7.69 degrees or 532 statute miles south of the Antarctic Circle—and into a region of the Southern Ocean that later became known as the Weddell Sea.