The Jenny was an alleged English schooner and the subject of an unproven legend. The story goes that the Jenny became frozen in an ice-barrier of the Drake Passage in 1823, only to be rediscovered in 1840 by a whaling ship, the bodies aboard being preserved by the Antarctic cold. The original report has been deemed unsubstantiated.[A]
The earliest known source for the story appears to be an article in the Wiener Zeitung published on 19 February 1841.[2] In the following weeks, the same text was printed in at least seven other newspapers.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
On the occasion of the McClintock Arctic expedition, the story of the schooner Jenny was remembered again: for example, in an anonymous article in an 1862 edition of Globus, a popular German geographical magazine.[10][11]
^Headland, Robert K. (1989). Chronological list of Antarctic expeditions and related historical events. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 129. ISBN0521309034.
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