James-Ross island

The island James Ross is located at broad north-eastern end of the Péninsule the Antarctic, from which it is separated by the Chenal Prince-Gustav. Of irregular form, it has an extent of 60 kilometers of north in the south. It was explored in October 1903 by the Swedish forwarding directed by Otto Nordenskjöld, which gave him this name in the honor of James Clark Ross, chief of a British forwarding carried out in this area in 1842, during which were charted a certain number of points of the Eastern coast of the island. It is called island James Ross to differentiate it from the island of Ross, more known.

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