Joseph Barclay Pentland is remembered for reaching places that the written record had not yet described.
The record lists Joseph Barclay Pentland as Irish naturalist and explorer (1797-1873).
Joseph Barclay Pentland was born at Ballybofey in 1797. His recorded nationality is Kingdom of Great Britain.
Enlightenment expeditions carried naturalists and instruments; the Pacific was charted with chronometers and the intention of measuring, not merely claiming.
He is recorded as explorer, diplomat and ornithologist.
What an expedition is remembered for is rarely what it set out to do.
Joseph Barclay Pentland died in 1873, aged 76. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Recorded as explorer, diplomat and ornithologist
