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| | Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online |
 | | Ross served continuously for six years with his uncle, and moved with him when the latter took command of Actaeon for service in the Baltic, the White Sea, and the English Channel, and then of Driver for service on the west coast of Scotland. |
 | | The Rosses, who had spent an unprecedented four and a half years in the Arctic, were received by William IV upon their return. |
 | | Ross, and the discovery of the Northern Magnetic Pole (1st ed., London, [1834]; 2nd ed., 1835); A voyage of discovery, made under the orders of the Admiralty, in his majesty’s ships Isabella and Alexander, for the purpose of exploring Baffin’s Bay, and inquiring into the probability of a north-west passage (London, 1819). |
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