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A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions, during the Years 1839-43 2 Volume Set (Paperback)
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A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions, during the Years 1839-43 2 Volume Set (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration
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James Clark Ross (1800-1862) was an explorer who served in the
Royal Navy and made his first Arctic trip in 1818 on an
unsuccessful mission to find the North-West Passage between the
Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. On the basis of his polar experience,
he was appointed to lead further expeditions, and by 1839 he found
himself on the opposite side of the world in the Antarctic, with
Joseph Dalton Hooker as his on-board naturalist. This two-volume
account of the voyage was published in 1847. Ross' findings led him
to the conclusion that there was life on the sea floor to at least
730 metres, which challenged the prevailing 'azoic hypothesis' that
nothing could live beneath 550 metres. The work, which includes
oceanic and climatic observations, is an important contribution to
the development of oceanography and scientific knowledge about the
Antarctic.
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