John L Cope

Students: Willie Welde, Christie Rosenzweig, Nicole Melso

Cope sent a message from Port Stanley to the Falkland islands
“Sailing from here Dec. 20 with full equipment and dogs. Hope to land at Graham’s Dec. 25. All the party well. Expect to hear from us in eighteen months. Good-bye.”
The goal of the mission was to use the 18 months to chat the western shores of the Weddeil Sea and in carry out scientific work in the Antarctic.
Jules Verne never thought that an expedition be commander John Lachian Cope, which had five ships and a crew, would be able to solve the mysteries of the unknown parts of the south polar seas.