James Clark Ross

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James Clark Ross was a British explorer of the Antarctic who Between 1839 and 1843 commanded an Antarctic expedition comprising the vessels HMS Erebus and HMS Terror; he charted much of the coastline of the continent. Support for the expedition was arranged by Francis Beaufort, a hydrographer of the Navy and a member of several scientific societies. Ross' two vessels, the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror, were bomb vessels – an unusual type of warship named after the mortar bombs they were designed to fire and constructed with extremely strong hulls, to withstand the recoil of the mortars, which were to prove of great value in thick ice.

The Ross Dependency, Ross Island, Ross Ice Shelf and Ross Sea are all named for him.

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