Biscoe commanded two ships, the brig Tula and the cutter Lively. He arrived on the South Shetland Islands in December 1830, but did not meet a good catch there. He next sailed south to 60°, and then east around that latitude. He discovered a part of the Antarctic coastline which he called Enderby Land.
He spent the Winter in Hobart, on Tasmania, and in the Summer of 1831-2, he crossed the Atlantic waters again. He discovered Adelaide Island and the Biscoe Islands, then found land which he believed to be part of the continent, and which he called Graham Land. What he actually discovered was Anvers Island in the Palmer Archipelago, but the name Graham Land is now being used for the mainland further east, also known as the Antarctic Peninsula. Some seals were caught on the South Shetlands, and after a visit to the Falklands (where the Lively was lost), Biscoe returned to England in January 1833.
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