James Weddell, Belgian-English sailor and navigator (born 1787)

James Weddell

British sailor, navigator, seal hunter and polar explorer

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.