2-756-341 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sir James Clark Ross, (1946). Undated portrait of British naval officer and polar explorer James Clark Ross (1800-1862). He was a member of expeditions to the Arctic with his uncle, Sir John Ross and Sir William Parry, attempting to find the Northwest Passage and locate the North Magnetic Pole. Between 1839 and 1843, Ross commanded HMS 'Erebus' and HMS 'Terror' on an expedition to explore the Antarctic. In 1848 he made his last voyage, to the Arctic in an unsuccessful attempt to locate the missing expedition of Sir John Franklin. From "British Polar Explorers", by Admiral Sir Edward Evans. [Collins, London, 1946]