Man Who Found A Continent, The
Broadcast: June 22, 1954
Added: Apr 16 2017
Discoveries sometimes start in strange ways. For example, the first United States exploring expedition ever fitted out had at least some of its routes in the agitation a few years previously, of a retired army captain, who believed that the earth was hollow. This is the story of Lieutenant Charles Wilkes, and the continent of Antarctica... The story begins on the 27th day of January, 1823.