Sir James Clark Ross

Sir James Clark Ross
noun
British explorer of the Arctic and Antarctic; located the north magnetic pole in 1831; discovered the Ross Sea in Antarctica; nephew of Sir John Ross (1800-1862)
Syn: ↑Ross, ↑James Clark Ross
Instance Hypernyms: ↑explorer, ↑adventurer

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