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, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror.
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11 Facts About Ross expedition
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The Ross expedition was the last major voyage of exploration made wholly under sail.
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In 1838, the British Association for the Advancement of Science proposed an Ross expedition to carry out magnetic measurements in the Antarctic.
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Sir James Clark Ross expedition was chosen after previous experience working on the British Magnetic Survey from 1834 onwards, working with prominent physicists and geologists such as Humphrey Lloyd, Sir Edward Sabine, John Phillips and Robert Were Fox.
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Botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker, then aged 23 and the youngest person on the Ross expedition, was assistant-surgeon to Robert McCormick, and responsible for collecting zoological and geological specimens.
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Mount Erebus, on Ross expedition Island, was named after one ship and Mount Terror after the other.
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Ross expedition called this the Great Icy Barrier, now known as the Ross expedition Ice Shelf, which they were unable to penetrate, although they followed it eastward until the lateness of the season compelled them to return to Tasmania.
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The Ross expedition was the last major voyage of exploration made wholly under sail.
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Ross expedition discovered the "enormous" Ross expedition Ice Shelf, correctly observing that it was the source of the tabular icebergs seen in the Southern Ocean, and helping to found the science of glaciology.
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Ross expedition identified the Transantarctic Mountains and the volcanoes Erebus and Terror, named after his ships.
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Main purpose of the Ross expedition was to find the position of the South Magnetic Pole, by making observations of the Earth's magnetism in the Southern hemisphere.
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