Talk:John Davis (sealer)

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[edit] Date of birth

  • The date of birth (1884) and date of joining the Merchant Service (1900) must be wrong. Are they simply out by 100 years (ie: should be 1784 and 1800) or do they apply to a different John Davis? - TristramBrelstaff 21:28, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
I have removed the DOB as it was written by an anonymous editor and it was uncited. PianoKeys 22:56, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Disputed" claim of first landing

At the moment, after describing the first landing and adding a quote from Davis's logbook, the article reads: "If the logbook entry is accurate these men were the first humans to set foot on the new continent of Antarctica.[4] However, historians dispute the ships [sic!] logbook claim.[5]"

Well, checking note 4 you might expect to see some doubt about Davis in order to justify inclusion of doubt in the article, but the link straightforwardly writes that Davis's was the "first recorded landing". It becomes farce at note 5's link. Titled "Fun Social Studies," it's written for children and written badly, with misplaced capitals. The pertinent part reads: On February 7, 1821, John Davis, became the first person to land on Antarctica. He was Captain of an American whaling ship. Some Historians claim the part he landed on is not part of the true continent, but a Peninsula, or piece jutting out.

Nonsensical. Besides not citing any "Historians," saying that a peninsula is not part of a continent that it's jutting out of is borderline illiterate. A child's webpage isn't a source anyway. I'm deleting the second sentence, and revising the first to put it in sync with its supporting source. 69.239.236.37 16:16, 4 July 2007 (UTC)