Nimrod Expedition
The explorer John Biscoe in the brig "Tula" searched for the Nimrod Group without success in 1831 during the Southern Ocean Expedition. John King Davis, sailing aboard a different "Nimrod", searched the location in June 1909 following Shackleton's famous Nimrod Expedition to Antarctica, and the Norwegian vessel "Norvegia" outfitted by Lars Christensen searched again in 1930; both expeditions reported empty seas. Captain J.P. Ault of the magnetic survey vessel "Carnegie" attempted to approach the location in December 1915 but was deterred by weather.