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Joseph Dalton Hooker's botanical surveys on HMS Erebus and Terror (1839–1843)

Joseph Dalton Hooker's botanical surveys on HMS Erebus and Terror (1839–1843)

  1. Hooker earns medical degree, enabling naval service

    Labels: Joseph Dalton, University of

  3. Hooker collects plants at early Atlantic stopovers

    Labels: Atlantic stopovers, botanical collecting

  4. Sub-Antarctic collecting at Kerguelen Islands

    Labels: Kerguelen Islands, sub-Antarctic flora

  5. Extended botanical work during the Tasmania wintering

    Labels: Van Diemen's, magnetic observatory

  7. Ross crosses Antarctic Circle and reaches new coasts

    Labels: Victoria Land, Mount Erebus

  8. Great Ice Barrier encountered, limiting southern progress

    Labels: Ross Ice, Great Ice

  9. First season ends with return to Tasmania for refit

    Labels: Tasmania refit, ship repairs

  10. Second Antarctic season extends “farthest south” record

    Labels: Farthest South, inlet discovery

  11. Expedition returns to England; Ross honored

    Labels: James Clark, return to

  12. Hooker begins publishing the Antarctic voyage botany

    Labels: Flora Antarctica, botanical publication

  13. Hooker publishes sub-Antarctic and island floras from voyage

    Labels: Botany of, sub-Antarctic floras

  14. Long publication arc culminates in broader southern floras

    Labels: southern floras, long publication