Captain John Davis (born 1784 in Surrey, England) was an American sailor and seal hunter from Connecticut, United States.
The ship's logbook entry reads: Commences with open Cloudy Weather and Light winds a standing for a Large Body of Land in that Direction SE at 10A.M.
the Boat returned but find no sign of Seal at noon our Latitude was 64°01' South Stood up a Large Bay, the Land high and covered intirely [sic] with snow the wind coming Round to the North & Eastward with Thick weather Tacked ship and headed off Shore.
[4][5] The first undisputed landing on Antarctica did not occur for another 74 years, on 24 January 1895, when a group of men from the Norwegian ship Antarctic went ashore to collect geological specimens at Cape Adare.
The group included the Norwegians Henrik Johan Bull and Carsten Borchgrevink and the New Zealander Alexander von Tunzelmann.