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Definition of Sir James Clark Ross
1. Noun. 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).
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Literary usage of Sir James Clark Ross
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1847)
"By Captain Sir James Clark Ross, RN 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1847- 2. Notes on the
Botany of the Antarctic Voyage conducted by Captain Sir JC Ross. ..."
2. The Hereditary Sheriffs of Galloway: Their "forebears" and Friends, Their by Andrew Agnew (1893)
"Explored Baffin's Bay, 1818 ; continued search for North-West Passage, 1830-34 ;
Knight Bachelor, 1834. 2 Sir James Clark Ross, his nephew, ..."
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