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Sir James Clark Ross Sir James Clark Ross
Sir James Clark Ross 1800-1862, British polar explorer and rear admiral. In 1818 he accompanied his uncle, Sir John Ross, in search of the Northwest Passage and commanded the Erebus. He later studied Eskimo life while on several arctic voyages (1819-27) with W. E. Parry. In another expedition... Read more
Ross Sea Ross Sea
Ross Sea arm of the Pacific Ocean, Antarctica , between Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land. It was discovered in 1841 by Sir James Clark Ross, a British explorer. Ross Island with Mt. Erebus, an active volcano, is in the western part of the sea; Roosevelt Island is in the east. The Ross Sea's... Read more
Sir John Ross Sir John Ross
Sir John Ross 1777-1856, British arctic explorer and rear admiral. In 1818 he went in search of the Northwest Passage but turned back after exploring Baffin Bay. Financed by Sir Felix Booth, he commanded a second search expedition (1829-33), in the course of which he discovered Boothia Peninsula,... Read more
Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan
Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan 1911-77, British dramatist. One of England's most popular and commercially successful contemporary playwrights, he was the master of the tightly crafted "problem play." He was knighted in 1971. Among his plays are O Mistress Mine (1945), The Winslow Boy (1947), ... Read more
William Baffin William Baffin
William Baffin c.1584-1622, British arctic explorer. He was pilot on two expeditions (1615-16) sent out to search for the Northwest Passage under command of Robert Bylot, who was formerly with Henry Hudson. The first expedition vainly tried to find a channel in Hudson Bay N of Southampton Island.... Read more
King William Island King William Island
King William Island part of the Arctic Archipelago, in the Arctic Ocean, Nunavut Territory, Canada, between Boothia Peninsula and Victoria Island. The northern coast of the island was explored (1831) by Sir James C. Ross . In 1837, Thomas Simpson of the Hudson's Bay Company traced the southern... Read more
William Parsons 3d earl of Rosse William Parsons 3d earl of Rosse
William Parsons Rosse, 3d earl of , 1800-1867, British astronomer and constructor of telescopes. He served as member of Parliament for King's Co., Ireland (1821-34), Irish representative peer (from 1845), president of the British Association (1843), president of the Royal Society (1849-54), and... Read more
Sir Francis Leopold McClintock Sir Francis Leopold McClintock
Sir Francis Leopold McClintock 1819-1907, British arctic explorer. As a lieutenant in the navy he was assigned to his first arctic service in 1848, when Sir James Clark Ross went in search of the lost expedition of Sir John Franklin. On this voyage and on the Franklin search expedition (1850-51)... Read more
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magnetic pole the two nearly opposite ends of the planet where the earth's magnetic intensity is the greatest, as the north and south magnetic poles. For the magnetic north, it is the direction from any point on the earth's surface linking the horizontal component of the magnetic lines of force... Read more
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