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	John Ross (Arctic explorer) Summary
		Ross was a good navigator, skilled at surveying land, and the inventor of a new type of sextant known as the Royal William.
		Ross served as consul to Stockholm from 1839 to 1846.
		Ross was the son of the Rev. Andrew Ross, minister of Inch, near Stranraer in Scotland.
	www.bookrags.com /John_Ross_(Arctic_explorer) (2196 words)

	John Ross - Arctic Explorers - All Things Arctic
		His Arctic career consisted of two naval expeditions in search of the Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean and one unsuccessful attempt to find the lost explorer Sir John Franklin.
		Ross was knighted in 1834 and elevated to the rank of Rear Admiral in 1851.
		Prior to joining his uncle in 1829, Sir James Clark Ross went on several Arctic expeditions with Sir William E. Parry from 1819 to 1827.
	www.allthingsarctic.com /exploration/ross.aspx (484 words)

	Sir John Ross - LoveToKnow 1911
		SIR JOHN ROSS (1777-1856), British rear-admiral and Arctic explorer, son of the Rev. Andrew Ross, minister of Inch, Wigtonshire, entered the Royal Navy in 1786, serving in the Mediterranean till 1789, and afterwards in the Channel.
		Six years later he was given the command of an Arctic expedition fitted out by the Admiralty, the first of a new series of attempts to solve the question of a NorthWest passage.
		On his return Captain Ross was the recipient of gold medals from the English and French geographical societies, and of various foreign orders, including a knighthood of the Pole Star of Sweden, and in the following year (1834) received a knighthood and a C.B. at home.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Sir_John_Ross (271 words)

	Antarctic Explorers: James Clark Ross
		Ross first thought it to be an ice-blink (a whiteness in the sky caused by the reflection of ice ahead) but as they approached they realized the ice-blink was actually a mountainous, snow-covered land.
		Ross realized there was no possible penetration further as Ross stated that "we might with equal chance of success try to sail through the cliffs of Dover, as to penetrate such a mass".
		Ross was delighted and took pleasure in the fact that their efforts had been "unattended by casualty, calamity, or sickness of any kind, and that every individual on both ships had been permitted to return in perfect health and safety to this southern home".
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	John Ross - The Arctic and More - 19th Century - Pathfinders and Passageways
		In 1829, Ross admitted to having drawn hasty conclusions during this expedition and convinced one of his friends, Felix Booth, the distiller of Booth gin, to finance another expedition to the Arctic, this time on a steam ship.
		Ross brought along his nephew, James Clark Ross, and they and their crew left the harbour in May 1829.
		Ross and his nephew were received by King William IV, and John Ross became a celebrity in London's salons.
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	John Ross (Arctic explorer) Details, Meaning John Ross (Arctic explorer) Article and Explanation Guide
		Sir John Ross (June 24, 1777 - August 30, 1856) was a British rear admiral and Arctic explorer.
		Ross, the son of the Rev. Andrew Ross, minister of Inch, near Stranraer, Wigtonshire, entered the British Royal Navy in 1786 as an apprentice, when he was only nine years old.
		In 1832, Ross and his crew abandoned their ship and walked to another shipwreck which had been abandoned by a different expedition many years earlier.
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	Notable Explorers
		Bruce, William Speirs, Scottish explorer and authority on the polar regions
		Nordenskjöld, Nils Adolf Erik, Baron, Swedish geologist and arctic explorer
		Rasmussen, Knud Johan Victor, Danish arctic explorer and ethnologist
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	Welcome to Arctic Blast 2001 - On the Expedition
		The mysterious disappearance of English explorer John Franklin's expedition in 1878-79 to the Northwest Passage stimulated further exploration and in 1893-96 Swedish navigator Nils Nordensköld was the first European to discover the Northeast Passage.
		In the High Arctic, (the Arctic islands north of the main Canadian coastline), Europeans believed there was a Northwest Passage across North America to the Pacific and Orient.
		Arctic explorers learned from the misfortunes of early explorers, and also learned survival skills from the Inuit.
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	John Geiger > Articles > The Irish Times > Exploring Leadership (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Relative obscurity is a fate that befalls many explorers, and for much of the past century, Shackleton's saga of survival in particular could not compete with the desolating finale of his polar rival, Captain Robert Falcon Scott.
		Ross characterized their behaviour as "the first symptom approaching to mutiny." His response was to reprimand their emissary for his impudence, then, "in a manner not easily misunderstood," ordered the party to proceed.
		Scurvy spread, and Ross speculated grimly whether "it should be the fortune of anyone to survive after another such year as the three last." But the faint warmth of spring brought with it hope.
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		Kugaaruk, Nunavut, Hamlet, population population 605 (2001 census), 496 (1996 census), incorporated 1972, is a remote and relatively inaccessible community on the Arctic coast.
		The hamlet was first known as Pelly Bay after Sir John Pelly, a governor of the Hudson's Bay Company.
		John ROSS, the arctic explorer, wintered nearby in 1829.
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	Marshall Sir John Ross (politician) - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Marshall, Sir John Ross (politician) (1912-1988), New Zealand politician, Prime Minister of New Zealand (1972).
		Ross, Sir John (1777-1856), explorer of the Arctic, born in Inch, Wigtown County, Scotland.
		Hawkins, Sir John (1532-1595), English admiral and privateer, born in Plymouth.
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	Golf.Uk.Net - Accommodation Details - North West Castle
		North West Castle was built in 1820 on the shores of Loch Ryan, for Sir John Ross, the Arctic Explorer.
		Ross and his crewmen were lost for four years and presumed dead.
		Sir John Ross is a revered son of Stranraer and the town's museum pays tribute to him with a permanent display.
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	Captain Ross, Arctic Expedition, 1833 letter
		I now have the pleasing duty of calling the attention of their lordships to the merit of Commander Ross, who was second in the direction of this expedition.
		The labors of this officer, who had the departments of astronomy, natural history and surveying, will speak for themselves in language beyond the ability of my pen; but they will be duly appreciated by their lordships, and the learned bodies of which he is a member, and who are already well acquainted with his acquirements.
		John Ross, Captain, R. To Captain the Hon.
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	Sir John Ross - Encyclopedia.com
		Sir John Ross 1777-1856, British arctic explorer and rear admiral.
		His last trip to the Arctic was made in 1850-51, when he went to the Lancaster Sound region to search for Sir John Franklin.
		Sir John Templeton is Shorting U.S. and Japanese Stocks, According to Equities Magazine's 24th Consecutive Summary of His Current Investment Views.
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	Polar Quest North and South Pole Expedition 2006
		John Franklin (1786 – 1847), An English rear admiral and explorer, his ill-fated expedition (1845) is credited with having proved the existence of the Northwest Passage, a Canadian Arctic waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
		William Edward Parry (1790 - 1855), A British explorer, he entered the Royal Navy and made his first voyage to the Arctic under Sir John Ross in 1818 in search of the Northwest Passage.
		The goal of the expedition was to reach the South Pole from a base on Ross Island in the Ross Sea.
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	Arctic Explorers - EnchantedLearning.com
		Sir John Franklin (1786-1847) was an English explorer and Admiral who proved the existence of a Northwest Passage (a water route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean through Canada).
		Scottish explorer John Rae determined that Franklin and his expedition had died of starvation and exposure in the Arctic; Eskimos at Pelly Bay told Rae of Franklin's fate.
		Antarctica: James Ross led an Antarctic expedition (1839-43), commanding the "Erebus" while his friend Francis Crozier commanded the "Terror." Ross charted much of the coastline and in 1841 discovered the Ross Sea, and the Victoria Barrier, which was later renamed the Ross Ice Shelf.
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		At the beginning of the eighteenth century, John Adair, the laird of Little Genoch, was married to Mary Agnew, a near kinswoman of the celebrated Sir Andrew, colonel of the Scots Fusiliers at Dettingen.
		Among them Admiral Sir John Ross, the Arctic explorer, Sir Hew Dalrymple, and Field-Marshal Sir Hew Dalrymple Ross, were all her great-nephews, and her son, Dr. John Adair, was the man in whose arms Wolfe died at the taking of Quebec; it is he who is shown in Benjamin West's picture supporting the General.
		John James Ruskin had been protesting that he was never going to marry, but meant to devote himself to his mother; she replied: "...
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	John Ross (Arctic explorer) at AllExperts
		In 1829, Ross admitted he may have been wrong, and convinced one of his friends, Mr (afterwards Sir) Felix Booth, to finance a second expedition.
		In 1832, Ross and his crew abandoned their ship and walked to another shipwreck which had been abandoned by a different expedition many years earlier.
		In 1850 he undertook a third voyage to the Arctic regions, this time in search of the missing expedition party of Sir John Franklin.
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	Alwynne B. Beaudoin - Chronology of Arctic Events
		John Rae born near Stromness, in the Orkney Islands off the north coast of Scotland.
		Sir John Ross died in London, England, at the age of 79.
		John Rae died in London, England, at the age of 79.
	www.scirpus.ca /reading/arctic_chron.htm (475 words)

	John Franklin at AllExperts
		Sir John Franklin FRGS (April 15, 1786 – June 11, 1847) was an English sea captain and Arctic explorer whose expedition disappeared while attempting to chart and navigate the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic.
		Franklin first travelled to the Arctic in 1818, as a lieutenant under the command of John Ross, and became fascinated by it.
		The bodies of the explorers had been preserved in the frozen ground, and autopsies showed they had died of tuberculosis.
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	John Ross (Arctic explorer) - Biography of John Ross (Arctic explorer)
		Sir John Ross (June 24, 1777 – August 30, 1856) was a British rear admiral and Arctic explorer.
		He was also to note the currents, tides, the state of ice and magnetism and to collect specimens he found on the way.
		But Ross went no further, for he suffered from mirages that appeared as mountains at the end of the strait.
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	John Ross (Arctic explorer) - Definition, explanation
		Sir John Ross (June 24, 1777 – August 30, 1856) was a British rear admiral and Arctic explorer.
		Ross, the son of the Rev. Andrew Ross, minister of Inch, near Stranraer, Wigtonshire, entered the British Royal Navy in 1786 as an apprentice, when he was only nine years old.
		Six years later, in 1818, he received the command of an Arctic expedition fitted out by the Admiralty, the first of a new series of attempts to solve the question of a Northwest Passage.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/j/jo/john_ross__arctic_explorer_.php (641 words)

	John Ross - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Ross, John, Native American name Coowescoowe (1790-1866), Native American chief of the Cherokee nation, born near Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, of a...
		Ross, Sir John (1777-1856), British explorer of the Arctic, who led expeditions in 1818 and 1829 in search of the Northwest Passage.
		Mason, James Murray (1798-1871), proslavery American congressman, who was one of two Confederate leaders imprisoned by Union forces in the...
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	Arctic Explorers - EnchantedLearning.com
		Sir John Franklin (1786-1847) was an English explorer and Admiral who proved the existence of a Northwest Passage (a water route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean through Canada).
		Scottish explorer John Rae determined that Franklin and his expedition had died of starvation and exposure in the Arctic; Eskimos at Pelly Bay told Rae of Franklin's fate.
		Antarctica: James Ross led an Antarctic expedition (1839-43), commanding the "Erebus" while his friend Francis Crozier commanded the "Terror." Ross charted much of the coastline and in 1841 discovered the Ross Sea, and the Victoria Barrier, which was later renamed the Ross Ice Shelf.
	www.enchantedlearning.com /explorers/arctic.shtml (1152 words)

	Arctic Library - Alphabetical Listings
		Arctic Circle - The Arctic Circle is one of the five major circles of latitude that mark maps of the Earth.
		Ross, James Clark - Was one of the most seasoned of the British Polar explorers and a member of the British "Arctic Council".
		Ross, Sir John - He was thought to have perished, but was knighted in honour of the four Arctic winters he endured, and for bringing his men through with few losses.
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	Arctic Quest - 100% Safe Download and Play INSTANTLY!
		British explorer and adventurer Dom Mee will be returning to the Arctic leading a joint team of personnel from the Royal Navy and Royal Marines on a historical and geographical expedition.
		Exercise Arctic Quest 1832 is believed to be the first British expedition to this area for over 170 years.
		After enduring three harsh Arctic winters in the Gulf of Boothia Sir John and his crew abandoned their ice bound ship in 1832 and headed on foot towards Baffin Bay.
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	The Arctic Fox
		Conrad’s praise was echoed by many others in his era, and yet when the list of notable Arctic explorers is recited today, McClintock’s name is all too often absent, or confined within parentheses after the far more prominent name of Franklin.
		It was to be twenty-five years before he retired at the rank of Admiral; during that time he surveyed routes for the transatlantic cable, stood (unsuccessfully) for a seat in Parliament, served as aide-de-camp to Queen Victoria, and was appointed as admiral-superintendent of the Portsmouth dockyard.
		Here is a worthy addition for any collection of Arctic books, returning to its proper place the life of the last — and the foremost — explorer of the Franklin era.
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	John Ross — Infoplease.com
		Elected principal chief of the eastern Cherokee in 1828, Ross struggled valiantly to hold the ancestral lands of his people but was unable to withstand the constant pressure of the state of Georgia for removal.
		Ross and the majority refused to acknowledge the cession, but resistance was unsuccessful, and in 1838–39 he led them on the long, hard journey to present-day Oklahoma.
		John ROSS - ROSS, John (1770—1834) ROSS, John, (father of Thomas Ross), a Representative from...
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	University of Delaware: TWO HUNDRED YEARS BEFORE THE MAST: Arctic Exploration
		Voyages made by Moor, Bering, and Cook for the elusive northern sea route kept interest alive in arctic exploration during the eighteenth century, but it was not in the nineteenth century that exploration of the north polar region began in earnest.
		Parry's disagreements with John Ross after their 1818 voyage to Baffin Bay, over the issue of whether Lancaster Sound was landlocked, led to Parry being selected to command the Hecla and Griper on a new expedition in the following year.
		Nordenskiold was a Swedish geologist and veteran arctic explorer.
	www.lib.udel.edu /ud/spec/exhibits/voyages/arctic.htm (2045 words)

	John Ross - A Second Chance
		Ross wanted to lead a new expedition there, but the British Admiralty had lost confidence in him and refused to sponsor the voyage.
		The younger Ross was second in command, as he had been promoted to Commander after taking part in a series of Arctic expeditions with Parry during the 1920's.
		Having reached land 200 miles farther than Parry had gone, Ross and his party were forced to stay there for the winter, naming the place Felix Harbor, again after his backer.
	www.wayfarersbookshop.com /Biographies/John_Ross/A_Second_Chance/a_second_chance.html (270 words)

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