In 1830, the English whaling company Samuel Enderby & Sons appointed John Biscoe master of the brig Tula and leader of an expedition to find new seal-hunting grounds in the Southern Ocean.
One source suggests John Biscoe had sighted Anvers Island rather than the Antarctic continent[citation needed] and another that the expedition made a landing there.
[1] Before heading homeward, Biscoe again began charting the new coastline the expedition had found and by the end of April 1832 he had become the third man (after James Cook and Fabian von Bellingshausen) to circumnavigate the Antarctic continent.
[citation needed] On the journey home, one calamity befell the expedition: in July, the Lively was wrecked at the Falkland Islands.
These were islands in the Southern Ocean that other mariners had claimed to have found, but eventually, during the twentieth century, they were declared to be phantoms.