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James Clark Ross
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(1800–62, kt 1843) Polar explorer who had been a member of five Arctic voyages before accompanying his uncle Sir John Ross (1777–1856) on the expedition which reached the north magnetic pole on 1 June 1831. The younger Ross then commanded the Erebus and Terror on a very successful expedition to the Antarctic (1839–43). In 1845 *Franklin sailed northwest in those same two ships and disappeared. Ross returned to the Arctic in 1848–9, leading one of the many attempts to discover what had happened to Franklin and his men.
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