biography
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| lived:
| (1777–1856)
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| biography:
| British naval officer, and Arctic explorer, born at Balsaroch, Dumfries and Galloway, SW Scotland, UK. In 1818 he led an expedition, including his nephew Sir James Clark Ross and Sir Edward Sabine, in search of the Northwest Passage. In 1829–33 he led another such expedition with Sir Felix Booth (1775–1850), during which he discovered and named Boothia Peninsula, King William Land, and the Gulf of Boothia. His ship was crushed in the ice (1832), and the party were eventually rescued by whalers (1833). In 1850 he made an unsuccessful attempt to discover the fate of Sir John Franklin. |
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