Ross Island
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Ross Island is an island in Antarctica lying on the east side of McMurdo Sound and extending 43 nautical miles from Cape Bird in the north to Cape Armitage in the south, and a similar distance from Ca
South end of Ross Island, with the pyramidal Observation Hill at the center of the image, between McMurdo Station and Scott Base. Crater Hill is visible to the right.
Ross Island's Castle Rock was discovered and named by the Robert Falcon Scott British Antarctica Expedition of 1901-1904
Observation hill overlooks McMurdo Station
Scott Base
James Clark Ross
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Rear-Admiral of the Red Sir James Clark Ross was a British naval officer and explorer who explored both the North and South Poles. In the Arctic, he participated in two expeditions led by his uncle, J
Ross Island
…Antarctica. There are also several airports and airstrips around Ross Island, some of which are only open seasonally. This area was discovered by Sir James Clark Ross in 1841, but he thought it formed part of the mainland of Victoria Land. It was determined to be an island and named Ross Island by the British National…
Commander James Clark Ross, R.N., Discoverer of the North Pole by J R Wildman, 1834
Illustration of the discovery of the North Magnetic Pole on the Boothia Peninsula in 1831, from Robert Huish's 1835 book
Ross expedition in the Antarctic, 1847, by John Carmichael
"E.I. 1849": Enterprise and Investigator, inscribed by a crew member of the Ross expedition on Somerset Island in Nunavut, Canada