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James Clark Ross
James Clark Ross | Sir James Clark Ross (April 15 1800 to April 3 1862)
Nationality and occupation
British Naval Officer and polar explorer
Achievements
- 1819-27, participated in Arctic voyages and expeditions, searching for the Northwest Passage
- 1829-33, took part in expedition that located the North Magnetic Pole
- 1835-38, participated in magnetic survey of England, Scotland and Wales
- 1839-43, charted much of the Antarctic coastline
- 1841, discovered the Ross Sea, and named volcanoes Mt Terror and Mt Erabus after the expedition's ships
- 1843, Ross was knighted
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