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A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions, during the Years 1839-43 (Paperback)
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A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions, during the Years 1839-43 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Polar Exploration, Volume 2
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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 four-year 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, and the work is an important
contribution to the development of oceanography and scientific
knowledge about the Antarctic. Volume 2 continues the story of the
expedition, which eventually reached 78S, and discovered the deep
bay in the southern ocean now called the Ross Sea.
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