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Person1800 – 1862
James Clark Ross
British naval officer and explorer who reached the North Magnetic Pole in 1831 and in 1841 discovered the Ross Sea, the Ross Ice Shelf and Mount Erebus
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With the Erebus and Terror the Briton James Clark Ross sailed into a deep sea of Antarctica (the Ross Sea) and found a smoking volcano, Mount Erebus, and a vast wall of ice barring the sea (the Ross Ice Shelf).
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- Antarctic Exploration1773 – 2014
From Cook crossing the Antarctic Circle in 1773 to the first sightings of the continent, Ross’s wall of ice, the race to the pole between Amundsen and Scott, Shackleton’s Endurance, the Antarctic Treaty and the ozone hole — two centuries of reaching for the frozen continent