1. Boston, 1719;See
2. Amsterdam, 1752;de Ulloa Antonio
3. . Louis Cotte, Mémoires sur la météorologie (1788), p.339, cited James Cook's sightings off the Australian coast in 1770 and 1773. But the southern lights may already have been reported in 1640 by the Jesuit priest Juan Ignacio Molina in Chile.See
4. Early observation of the aurora australis: AD 1640