|
Showing 1 - 25 of
36 matches in All Departments
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 1 covers Ross' journey from
England to the Antarctic Circle, detailing the oceanic and climatic
observations made along the way.
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.
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.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R383
R318
Discovery Miles 3 180
|