2-982-115 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sketches from H.M.S. Challenger, by Mr. J. J. Wild: the Challenger at Desolation Island, Magellan Strait, 1876. '[Captain] Cook - probably not aware of the previous discovery of the island by the French navigator Kerguelen, named it Desolation Island. This name well expresses the lonely and cheerless aspect of this treeless, snow-covered land...'. The Kerguelen Islands, also known as the Desolation Islands, are a group of islands in the sub-Antarctic. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.