Henryk Bull

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Henryk Bull was a businessman who had immigrated to Australia from Norway. Svend Foyn agreed to financially support an Antarctica expedition led by Henryk Bull in search of Right Whales. Svend Foyn was a businessman who patented the grenade-harpoon gun which was to be used for whaling. The ship called the Antarctic was used for the expedition and was equipped with eleven harpoon guns, an arsenal of explosives, eight whaleboats and thirty-one men.

On January 19, 1895, while in search of the elusive Right Whale, a small party landed on Possession Island, a rocky island about 2 miles long. On January 24, 1895, several members of the boats crew landed at at Cape Adare, Antarctica. At the time they believed they were the first men to set foot on Antarctica; however, that distinction might belong to sealer John Davis, with his disputed claim that he stepped onto the Antarctic Peninsula in 1821.