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    Sir James Clark Ross DCL FRS FLS FRAS (15 April 1800 – 3 April 1862) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer of both the northern and southern polar...
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    The Ross expedition was a voyage of scientific exploration of the Antarctic in 1839 to 1843, led by James Clark Ross, with two unusually strong warships...
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    explorer James Clark Ross named it "King William Land" for King William IV the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; Ross thought...
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    Sir John Ross CB (24 June 1777 – 30 August 1856) was a Scottish Royal Navy officer and polar explorer. He was the uncle of Sir James Clark Ross, who explored...
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    RRS James Clark Ross. RRS James Clark Ross was constructed at Swan Hunter Shipbuilders in Wallsend, UK and was named after the British explorer James Clark...
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    James Ross Island was charted in October 1903 by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (SwedAE) under Otto Nordenskiöld, who named it for Sir James Clark Ross...
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    explorers including John Ross; David Buchan; William Edward Parry; Frederick William Beechey; James Clark Ross (nephew of John Ross); George Back; Peter Warren...
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    Many places in the Arctic and Antarctic are named after him. He, with James Clark Ross and Richard Moody, was also responsible for selecting the location...
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    its name from Sir James Clark Ross, who discovered the Ross Sea and includes part of Victoria Land, and most of the Ross Ice Shelf. Ross, Balleny, Scott...
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    Ross Island lies within the boundary of Ross Dependency, an area of Antarctica claimed by New Zealand. This area was discovered by Sir James Clark Ross...
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    Roald Amundsen. The strait is named after British polar explorer James Clark Ross. James Ross Strait - Entry in the Columbia Gazetteer of North America on...
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    Roosevelt Island located in the east of the Ross Sea. The ice shelf is named after Sir James Clark Ross, who discovered it on 28 January 1841. It was...
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  • James Ross may refer to: James Ross (Australian lawyer) (1788–1865) James Ross (Australian politician) (1895–1975), New South Wales politician James Ross...
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    Orkney Passage Outflow (DynOPO) expedition onboard research ship RRS James Clark Ross of the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), to research how Antarctic Bottom...
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    Ross is a lunar impact crater that is located in the northwest part of the Mare Tranquillitatis. It was named after James Clark Ross (British explorer)...
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    Ross Richard "Rylan" Clark (born 25 October 1988) is an English broadcaster and media personality. He came to prominence as a contestant on the ninth series...
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  • Thumbnail for Victoria Land
    from the Hillary Coast of the Ross Dependency to the south. Early explorers of Victoria Land include James Clark Ross and Douglas Mawson. In 1979, scientists...
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    includes the little gull. This bird is named after the British explorer James Clark Ross. Its breeding grounds were first discovered in 1905 by Sergei Aleksandrovich...
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    smaller ranges. The range was first sighted by James Clark Ross in 1841 at what was later named the Ross Ice Shelf in his honour. It was first crossed...
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    logistic support. The ship replaces a pair of existing vessels, RRS James Clark Ross and RRS Ernest Shackleton. The vessel is named after broadcaster and...
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    although attempts have been made to rationalise his assertions. James Clark Ross's 1839–1843 Antarctic expedition in HMS Erebus and HMS Terror was a...
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  • held by the British Hydrographic Department, was used in 1840 by Sir James Clark Ross, who arrived with the Erebus and Terror in 1840. Recopied, it was also...
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    between 2 million years to 100,000 years old.: 2  Mont Ross was named after explorer Sir James Clark Ross. The first human being to set foot on its summit was...
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    the Ross Sea and forming the seaward (east) face of Hallett Peninsula. A cape in this vicinity was named "Cape Cotter" in 1841 by Sir James Clark Ross, after...
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    expedition. James Clark Ross was the nephew of John Ross, and accompanied him on the 1829 expedition. In late 1848, James Clark Ross returned to Somerset...
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    its name from the British explorer James Clark Ross who visited this area in 1841. To the west of the sea lies Ross Island and Victoria Land, to the east...
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  • 14-gun bomb vessel launched in 1826. She and HMS Terror took part in James Clark Ross' expedition to Antarctica from 1839 to 1843. The two ships were converted...
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    discovered in February 1841, and named after McMurdo by Captain James Clark Ross. Ross also wrote a letter to the Admiralty recommending McMurdo for promotion...
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    Antarctica. Mount Minto was discovered in January 1841 by Captain James Clark Ross, Royal Navy, who named it for the Earl of Minto, then First Lord of...
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    to claim he had discovered the continent. The British naval officer James Clark Ross failed to realise that what he referred to as "the various patches...
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