Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-f46jp Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-10T04:18:28.336Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Two unpublished accounts of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1839–43

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 October 2009

Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

[The British Antarctic Expedition, 1839–43, consisted of two Naval vessels, H.M.S. Erebus and Terror, with Sir James Clark Ross as leader and Captain F. R. M. Crozier as second-in-command. The objects of the expedition were mainly concerned with terrestrial magnetism, a subject of particular interest to Ross who had discovered the North Magnetic Pole in 1831. The expedition circumnavigated the Antarctic continent and made a number of important geographical discoveries. It twice penetrated the pack ice.of the Ross Sea; it discovered, and roughly charted, 500 miles of new coastline in Victoria Land; it discovered Ross Island and the Ross Ice Front, also the James Ross Island group; it visited Prince Edward Islands, les Crozet and les Kerguelen; and it sighted Joinville Island and the Balleny Islands. Observations of terrestrial magnetism were made from stations, either permanent or temporary, set up during the voyage.

Type
Articles
Information
Polar Record , Volume 10 , Issue 69 , September 1961 , pp. 587 - 604
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1961

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1Ross, James Clark. A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions during the Years 1839–43. London, 1847.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
2M'Cormick, Robert. Voyages of Discovery in the Arctic and Antarctic seas…. London, 1884.Google Scholar
3Mill, H. R.. Siege of the South Pole. London, 1905.Google Scholar
4Davis, J. E.. A Letter from the South Pole. Printed for private circulation, 1901.Google Scholar
5 SPRI MS. 361/22.Google Scholar
6 SPRI 59/5/1–6.Google Scholar