Our navigation bar is loading . . .

 


 

Jesus Christ Saves Ministries

Helping San Diego, California and beyond since 1997.  




 

JCSM's Top 1000 Christian Sites - Free Traffic Sharing Service!


Do you need volunteer, community service, work, military or court hours?

Click here and add this page to your favorites!

Return to the JCSM Study Center!

Encyclopedia Britannica



ROSS, SIR JAMES CLARK (1800-1862)

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 740 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RON-SAC
ROSS, SIR JAMES CLARK (1800-1862) , British
rear
 -
admiral
  and Polar explorer, was born in London on the 15th of
April
  1800. He entered the navy in 1812 under his uncle, Captain (afterwards Sir) John Ross, whom he accompanied on his first Arctic voyage in
search
  of a North-West passage (1818). Between 1819 and 1827 he returned four times to the same seas in the Arctic expeditions under Parry, and in 1829-33 again served on the same mission under his uncle, and while thus employed determined (1831) the position of the North Magnetic
Pole
 . In 1834 he was promoted captain, and from 1835-38 was employed on the magnetic survey of
Great
  Britain. In 1839-43 he commanded the Antarctic expedition of the " Erebus " and " Terror " (see POLAR REGIONS), and for this service he received a knight-
hood
  (1844) and was nominated to the French order of the Legion of Honour. He published a narrative of this expedition under the
title
  of A Voyage of Discovery and Research to Southern and Antarctic Regions (1847), and was the author also of various reports on zoological and other matters relating to his earlier voyages. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1848, and in that year made his last expedition, as captain of the " Enter-prise," in the first Franklin
search
  expedition. He died at
Aylesbury
  on the 3rd of
April
  1862.


End of Article: ROSS, SIR JAMES CLARK (1800-1862)


If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
<a href="http://jcsm.org/StudyCenter/Encyclopedia/RON_SAC/ROSS_SIR_JAMES_CLARK_1800_1862.html">
ROSS, SIR JAMES CLARK (1800-1862)
</a>
(Previous)
ROSS, SIR HEW DALRYMPLE (1779-1868) 		(Next)
ROSS, SIR JOHN (1777-1856)

 


 
 


JCSM was founded in 1997 and exists to help the community and bring people into a life-changing and productive relationship with Jesus Christ. JCSM offers over 200,000 free web pages, including its weekly inspirational emails that were sent continuously for over a decade.

Jesus Christ Saves Ministries
P.O. Box 9297
San Diego, CA  92169
1-888-887-0417 or Email

JCSM is a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization. Copyright © 1997-2012.
 

 

Sponsored Advertisements

Online First Aid and CPR Certification  .  DHA Solutions  .  PB Happy Hour Specials  .  Improvising Made Easy For Guitar and Bass  .  The Skeptic's Annotated Bible: Corrected and Explained  .  Home Equity Loans  .  First Aid and CPR Online  .  San Diego Music Lessons  .  10,000 Wise Quotes and Spiritual Sayings  .  Blow Up Your Site (For Free!)  .  San Diego DUI Lawyers  .  Jason Gastrich  .  Jordan Faith Gastrich  .  Divorce Secrets Revealed  .  Post Your Ad Link Free  .  San Diego Soccer Training  .  JCSM  .  Download Sermons  .  Custom Religious Banners, Build A Sign  .  Christian Singles Dating  .  Christian T-Shirts  .  Healing Christian Prayer  .  Bumper Authority  .  Personalized Blogs and Email  .  San Diego Haircuts  .  The Do the Math Diet  .  Stop Twitter Spam  .  Christian Conservative Work at Home Network  .  The Website of the Lord