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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later led expeditions to Antarctica. John Ross was born in Balsarroch, West Galloway, Scotland, on 24 June 1777, the son of the Reverend Andrew Ross of Balsarroch...
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expeditions led by his uncle, John Ross, and in four led by William Edward Parry: in the Antarctic, he led his own expedition from 1839 to 1843. Ross...
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("Shackleton Ice Shelf") 1839–1843 – James Clark Ross's expedition of 1839 to 1843 discovered the Ross Ice Shelf, Ross Sea, Mount Erebus, Mount Terror and Victoria...
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Franklin. The expedition was to consist of two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, both of which had been used for James Clark Ross' expedition to the Antarctic...
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Francis Crozier (category Franklin's lost expedition)
commander in 1837. In 1839, Crozier again joined James Clark Ross on the Ross expedition, as second-in-command of a four-year voyage to explore the Antarctic...
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Edward Sabine (section Ross expedition)
for an Antarctic expedition led by James Clark Ross aboard HMS Erebus, with Capt. Francis Crozier commanding HMS Terror.The expedition set up geomagnetic...
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crossing. The expedition required two ships: Endurance under Shackleton for the Weddell Sea party, and Aurora, under Aeneas Mackintosh, for the Ross Sea party...
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HMS Terror (1813) (category Franklin's lost expedition)
later, and participated in George Back's Arctic expedition of 1836–1837, the successful Ross expedition to the Antarctic of 1839 to 1843, and Sir John...
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Rurik expedition 1818: Royal Navy expedition led by captain David Buchan sails north from Spitsbergen 1818: Royal Navy expedition led by John Ross with...
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name was changed to "Ross Ice Shelf"; that name was published in 1956. On 5 January 1841, the British Admiralty's Ross expedition in the Erebus and the...
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HMS Erebus (1826) (category Franklin's lost expedition)
10 guns. The ship took part in the Ross expedition of 1839–1843, and was abandoned in 1848 during the third Franklin expedition. The sunken wreck was discovered...
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for many later British expeditions. Ross established the general geography of this region, and named many of its features; the Ross Sea, the Great Ice Barrier...
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it was the first expedition to over-winter on the Antarctic mainland, the first to visit the Great Ice Barrier—later known as the Ross Ice Shelf—since...
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The Terra Nova Expedition, officially the British Antarctic Expedition, was an expedition to Antarctica which took place between 1910 and 1913. Led by...
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Edward Adams (surgeon) (section Ross expedition)
join Sir James Clark Ross on his Arctic expedition to search for traces of Sir John Franklin's missing Northwest Passage expedition. Adams was aboard HMS Investigator...
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Roald Amundsen (redirect from Gjoa Expedition)
Antarctic – Amundsen." Nearly six months later, the expedition arrived at the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf (then known as "the Great Ice Barrier")...
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only species of the genus Ommatophoca. First described during the Ross expedition in 1841, it is the smallest, least abundant and least well known of...
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Richard E. Byrd (redirect from Byrd Antarctic Expedition)
base camp named "Little America" was constructed on the Ross Ice Shelf, and scientific expeditions by snowshoe, dog sled, snowmobile, and airplane began...
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The Nimrod Expedition of 1907–1909, otherwise known as the British Antarctic Expedition, was the first of three expeditions to the Antarctic led by Ernest...
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Graham Gore (category Franklin's lost expedition)
cairn previously erected by James Clark Ross in 1830 during John Ross' Second Arctic Expedition – at a location Ross named Victory Point. The document is...
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The United States Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842 was an exploring and surveying expedition of the Pacific Ocean and surrounding lands conducted by...
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South magnetic pole (section Expeditions)
d'Urville (1837–1840), American Charles Wilkes (expedition of 1838–1842) and Briton James Clark Ross (expedition of 1839–1843). The first calculation of the...
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The first ever expedition to reach the Geographic South Pole was led by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. He and four other crew members made it to...
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Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration (category Antarctic expeditions)
interest". Following James Clark Ross' expedition aboard the ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror in January 1841, Ross suggested that there were no scientific...
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region as a marine park. The Ross Sea was discovered by the Ross expedition in 1841. In the west of the Ross Sea is Ross Island with the Mt. Erebus volcano;...
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Ivan Lyakhov (section Expedition)
Sannikov Strait and discovered Kotelny Island. Lyakhov undertook his last expedition in 1775. This time there was a scientific background to his explorations...
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Northwest Passage (redirect from Amundsen expedition)
separately by many expeditions, including those by John Ross, Elisha Kent Kane, William Edward Parry, and James Clark Ross; overland expeditions were also led...
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Iceland for three years; many of these men would then join Erik on his expedition to Greenland. Erik's son Leif Erikson became the first Norseman to explore...
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The Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE) of 1955–1958 was a Commonwealth-sponsored expedition that successfully completed the first overland...
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