What Bellinghausen wanted to do was very straightforward. It didn't work out that way. And he did not try again. And nobody followed up with a "cleaner" version of his voyage.
What good is his mission now-- to my mission of proving the distance around the "bottom" of the world- the coast line of Antarctica? None. Oh, I'm sure I could work with the subtractions and additions, the adjustments and fine tune it... but by the time I've done all that, I've lost interest.
Why can't anyone simply sail around Antarctica in a straightforward verifiable way (for their era). The lack of a clear circumnavigation in history is not proof of a flat earth-- it only proves that there's a lack of proof.
Here is the route and the detour Bellinghausen took.
