James Clark Ross - Tributes

Tributes

  • The Ross seal, one of the four Antarctic phocids, first described during the expedition of 1839-1843.
  • The James Ross Strait, in the Canadian province of Nunavut, is named after him.
  • Named after James Ross, the Ross Ice Shelf is Antarctica's largest ice shelf.
  • RRS James Clark Ross is a British Antarctic Survey research ship.
  • The crater Ross on the Moon is jointly named after James Clark Ross and Frank Elmore Ross.
  • Ross's Gull, a small gull, the only species in its genus, that breeds in the high arctic of northernmost North America and northeast Siberia.

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