A while back, I posted a review of When America First Met China, a history of Chinese-American-British trade relations up to where steamships enter the picture. In the book, the author, Eric Jay Dolin talks about the various continents that traders visited in search of seals and sperm whales as well as other items.

Antarctica is one of those continents. The article, GUEST COLUMN: Antarctica displays grandeur of the Creator – Rome News-Tribune: Columns provides some interesting tidbits into Antarctica and nearby Cape Horn that traders navigated around and stopped at on their way to and from China.