John Balleny

John Balleny († 1857) was the English captain of the whaling ship Eliza Scott, for the English whaling company Enderby Brothers undertook 1838/39, an expedition trip to Antarctica.

On this expedition Balleny sailed with Thomas Freeman († 1839) and Sabrina in the Southern Ocean. The men registered a partial break-up of the pack ice surrounding the continent, discovered in February 1839 Balleny Islands and arrived at 64 ° 58 ' S, 121 ° 08' O also briefly within sight of the Antarctic continent. This area bears the name Sabrina Coast today. The team its Sabrina and lost on 24 March 1839 in a storm.

The way the Balleny adopted by the Southern Ocean was later used by other researchers such as Robert Scott, Ernest Shackleton, Roald Amundsen, and Richard Byrd and is still traveled by research vessels, the McMurdo Station and other scientific bases in and around supply the Ross Sea.