John Ross (exploring)

Sir John Ross (born on June 24th, 1777 in Balsarroch, Scotland; deceased on August 30th, 1856 with London) was a Rear-admiral of Scottish origin in the marine of brittanic war and a Explorateur of the areas Arctique S.

Its military career begins under the orders from the Admiral to sir James Saumarez, with which it made the Napoleonean Guerres.

In 1818, at the time of its first Arctic voyage to the research of the Passage of the North-West, it visits the north-western coast of the Greenland. Then, while trying to be inserted more towards the West, he concludes on several occasions which the water levels which he follows are bays. These conclusions, initially disputed by its officers, will prove to be false: they were in fact straits which would have possibly given access to a passage towards the West. Result of this voyage which finishes in the controversy: although it is promoted with the rank of Captain, Ross is seen refusing the command of another ship.

In 1829, Ross turns over finally in the Arctic to the orders of a forwarding financed by the distiller of the gin Felix Booth. It will return from there only four years later, him and its crew having been unable to be released from the ice during three winters of continuation. After having forsaken their own ship, they will borrow the launches of another ship given up in the ice too him.

After its triumphal return, the controversy is sown again, this time about the discovery of the magnetic north pole, inter alia. Ross asserts this discovery for itself, while its nephew, James Clark Ross, also of the voyage, estimates to be the person in charge about it.

External bond

the biography of Ross on the biographical site '' Dictionnaire of Canada in line ''

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