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James Clark Ross   /dʒeɪmz klɑrk rɑs/   Listen
James Clark Ross

noun
1.
British explorer of the Arctic and Antarctic; located the north magnetic pole in 1831; discovered the Ross Sea in Antarctica; nephew of Sir John Ross (1800-1862).  Synonyms: Ross, Sir James Clark Ross.





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... fires still kept their wide-ranging power. Nevertheless, when I scaled a high escarpment, I could see no volcanoes within a radius of several miles. In these Antarctic districts, as is well known, Sir James Clark Ross had found the craters of Mt. Erebus and Mt. Terror in fully active condition on the 167th meridian at latitude ...
— 20000 Leagues Under the Seas • Jules Verne


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