The nephew of noted Scottish Arctic explorer Sir John Ross
(1777-1856), James Clark Ross accompanied his uncle on his first
Arctic voyage in search of a Northwest Passage in 1818. Between
1819 and 1827, Ross then took part in four other Arctic
expeditions. Between 1829 and 1833 he again accompanied his uncle
on a second Arctic voyage. It was during this trip that they
located the position of the North Magnetic Pole on 1 June 1831 on
the Boothia Peninsula in the far north of Canada.
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Editors, Litencyc. "Three Antarctic voyages by James Clark Ross". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 January 2010 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=4806, accessed 23 November 2024.]
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