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Henry Eld was born in Cedar Hill, New Haven, Connecticut, on June 2, 1814,〔(Map of where Henry Eld's house was in Cedar Hill )〕 and lived in the area now known as View Street, but when it started becoming more populated he removed his house and relocated. He was a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy. ==Overview== Eld served as a geographer on the ship ''Peacock'', on the ship ''Vincennes'' at Fiji, and joined Lieutenant George Emmons's overland journey through Oregon and California (while in California he was involved in the Mexican War). He produced 43 maps and 42 pencil sketches of the land between the Columbia River and the Sacramento Valley. Eld kept journals and sketch books of the Wilkes Expedition, accompanied by letters, reports and orders, documenting his personal and professional life.〔Henry Eld, ''Journal, Statistics, &c., in Oregon and California'', MSS, in Yale University Library.〕 Henry Eld died at sea on board U. S. ship of war ''Ohio'' on March 12, 1850, bound home from Rio de Janeiro after a three and a half years' cruise. Lieut. Eld was one of the officers of the U.S. exploring expedition under Capt. Charles Wilkes in 1838 and 1842 in search of the Antarctic continent, which Lieut. Eld first descried and called out land from the crosstree of the sloop ''Peacock'' on January 16, 1839. From this the United States dates the first discovery of the Antarctic continent, and Capt. Wilkes named the highest mountain peak "Elds Peak".〔(Collections of the New Haven Colony Historical Society ), New Haven, Connecticut〕 They proved that the Antarctic was a continent (Lieutenant Eld was the first to see the Antarctic mountains at a crucial stage of their survey of the ice fields). Specimens where collected during the expedition - fifty thousand plants, and over 7 thousand mineral specimens, 3 thousand insects, innumerable shells, fish, reptiles, mammals, and hundreds of tribal artifacts- all these became scientific treasure. Also, Eld Inlet of Puget Sound in Washington state was named after Eld by Capt. Wilkes during the United States Exploring Expedition, to honor him. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry Eld」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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