Ross Sea
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The Ross Sea is a deep bay of the Southern Ocean in Antarctica, between Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land and within the Ross Embayment, and is the southernmost sea on Earth. It derives its name from
Sea ice in the Ross Sea
Bloom in the Ross Sea, January 2011
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 Sea
…Victoria Land and Marie Byrd Land and within the Ross Embayment, and is the southernmost sea on Earth. It derives its name from the British explorer James Clark Ross who visited this area in 1841. To the west of the sea lies Ross Island and Victoria Land, to the east Roosevelt Island and Edward VII Peninsula in Marie…
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