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'''John Balleny''' (died 1857) was the English captain of a [[whaling]] schooner, the ''Eliza Scott'', who led an exploration cruise for the English whaling firm Samuel Enderby & Sons to the [[Antarctica|Antarctic]] in 1838-1839.

During this expedition, Balleny, sailing in company with Thomas Freeman and the ''Sabrina'', sailed into the [[Southern Ocean]] along a corridor of longitude centering on the line of 175°E., south of New Zealand.

The Balleny squadron logged a partial break in the [[pack ice]] surrounding the southern continent, discovered the [[Balleny Islands]] in 1839, and caught a brief sight of Antarctica itself at 64°58'S., 121°08'E. This patch of icy land is today called the Sabrina Coast.

The Balleny corridor through the [[Southern Ocean]] would be used by future explorers such as [[Robert Falcon Scott]], [[Ernest Shackleton]], [[Roald Amundsen]], and [[Richard E. Byrd]], and is used today by surface vessels resupplying McMurdo and other scientific bases located in and around the [[Ross Sea]] sector of [[Antarctica]].

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