American explorer Benjamin Morrell departed Antarctica after a voyage later plagued by claims of fraud.

Benjamin Morrell

American explorer (1795 – c. 1839)

Benjamin Morrell was an American sea captain, explorer and trader who made a number of voyages, mainly to the Atlantic, the Southern Ocean and the Pacific Islands. In a ghost-written memoir, A Narrative of Four Voyages, which describes his sea-going life between 1823 and 1832,…