Three quarter length portrait of the noted Antarctic explorer, with the South star above, a telescope in hand, and a magnetic observation box displayed at the lower right. Fine, proof copy, copper engraving by Henry Cook, complete with full impression marks. Captain Ross (1800 - 1862) was a British Royal Navy officer and polar explorer, noted for his Antarctic expedition of 1839 - 1843, and his expeditions to the Arctic. Ross's Antarctic achievements include charting 900 km of Antarctic coast at Victoria Land; being the first to penetrate the Ross Sea ice pack; discovering Ross Island; attainment by 4 degrees of the furthest Southern expedition to date; the discovery of the position of the Northern Magnetic Pole; and the discovery of the Transantarctic Mountains and the volcanoes Erebus and Terror. Captain Ross commanded HMS Erebus on the Antarctic expedition with Captain Francis Crozier second in command, on HMS Terror. Joseph Dalton Hooker served as assistant ship's surgeon. Erebus and Terror were called "bomb vessels", built with very thick hulls for war time service, and of great use in the Antarctic ice. In 1841, Ross discovered the Ross Sea, Victoria Land, and the volcanoes Mount Erebus and Mount Terror, named for the expedition's ships. The expedition also sailed along the ice shelf called the Great Ice Barrier; in 1842 they attempted to penetrate south at about 55� W. In December 1842 Ross set out for his 3rd and final Antarctic season, with a goal of penetrating the Weddell Sea but was faced with impenetrable pack ice; he sailed for England in March of 1843. 11 x 14" image on 14 x 19". Printed on india paper and laid onto wove paper, the word "Proof" engraved on the lower left corner. Very light scattered fox spotting in margins o/w very good condition.

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Title

Captain James Clark Ross, R.N. . in Command of the Scientific Voyage of Discovery, to the Hitherto Unexplored Antarctic Regions

Publisher

Colnaghi & Puckle, London

Publication Date

1840

Binding

Soft cover

Condition

Very good overall

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