1969 A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions During the Years 1839-43 A Reprint with a new Foreword by Sir Raymond Priestley

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Folding Plates, Illustrated, With Dustwrapper

In the publisher's original cloth bindings, with the original price-clipped dust wrappers. Volume I is illustrated with a frontispiece, 3 further plates, 4 full-page maps, several vignettes, a folding plate, and a large folding chart to the rear. Volume II is illustrated with a frontispiece, 3 further plates, a full-page map, several vignettes and a large folding South Polar Chart to the rear. Collated complete. Sir James Clark Ross (1800-1862) was a British Royal Navy officer and polar explorer known for his explorations of the Arctic and, in particular, for his own Antarctic expedition from 1839 to 1843, which is recounted in this two volume set. He was awarded the Grande Médaille d'Or des Explorations in 1843, knighted in 1844, and elected to the Royal Society in 1848. Ross commanded HMS Erebus on his Antarctic expedition and charted much of the continent's coastline. He established magnetic measurement stations in Saint Helena, Cape Town, Kerguelen and Hobart. Ross crossed the Antarctic Circle on 1 January 1841. While he failed to reach the south pole, the expedition produced the first accurate magnetic maps of the Antarctic.