Two unpublished accounts of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1839–43

• Published in: Polar Record
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1961
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Ecology; Geography, Planning and Development; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Ross Sea; Kerguelen; Victoria Land; Ross Island; Balleny Islands; Crozier; Joinville; Joinville Island; Antarc*; James Ross Island; James Ross Island group; North Magnetic Pole; Polar Record; Prince Edward Islands
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400053894; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400053894

[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.