James Clark Ross
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Oct 29, 2026
Stephen SeidelNARRATOR
It was indeed in pursuit of this will-o'-the-wisp that most of the discoveries in the Arctic Circle were made, and a general impetus given to Arctic exploration.
Stephen SeidelNARRATOR
it is with a renewed attempt after this search that the modern history of arctic exploration begins in eighteen eighteen two expeditions were sent under the influence of sir joseph banks to search for the northwest passage and to attempt to reach the pole the former was the objective of john ross in the isabella and w e perry in the alexander while in the polar exploration John Franklin sailed in the Trent.
Stephen SeidelNARRATOR
Both expeditions were unsuccessful, though Ross and Perry confirmed Baffin's discoveries.
Stephen SeidelNARRATOR
Notwithstanding this, two expeditions were sent two years later to attempt the Northwest Passage, one by land under Franklin and the other by sea under Perry.
Stephen SeidelNARRATOR
perry managed to get half-way across the top of north america discovered the archipelago named after him and reached one hundred fourteen degrees west longitude thereby gaining the prize of five thousand pounds given by the british parliament for the first seaman that sailed west of the hundred and tenth meridian he was brought up however by banksland while the strait, which, if he had known it, would have enabled him to complete the northwest passage, was at that time closed by ice.
Stephen SeidelNARRATOR
In two successive voyages, in 1822 and 1824, Perry increased the detailed knowledge of the coasts he had already discovered, but failed to reach even as far westward as he had done on his first voyage.
Stephen SeidelNARRATOR
This somewhat discouraged government attempts at exploration.
Stephen SeidelNARRATOR
and the next expedition in eighteen twenty nine was fitted out by mr felix booth the sheriff of london who despatched the paddle steamer victory commanded by john ross he discovered the land known as Boothia Felix, and his nephew, James C. Ross, proved that it belonged to the mainland of America, which he coasted along by land to Cape Franklin, besides determining the exact position of the North Magnetic Pole at Cape Adelaide on Boothia Felix.
David AinleyGUEST
He was definitely a man of wisdom.
David AinleyGUEST
And James Clark Ross was an amazing person.
David AinleyGUEST
Yeah, many times over.
Philippa RossHOST
Yeah, it's not until you get further down the line.
Nikkiana JonesHOST
to go live and then they come back there to spawn but we don't don't we can't even figure out where their spawning place is you know and there's
Brooks AgnewGUEST
another there's the there's the ross goal because one of my ancestors is sir james ross the ross and agnew clans were very tight back in the 1400s and 1200s and in 1831 my ancestor sir james ross discovered the north magnetic pole and And one of his discoveries is now called the Ross gull.
Brooks AgnewGUEST
It's just a little seagull.
Brooks AgnewGUEST
And most birds fly south for the winter to nest and all that stuff.
Brooks AgnewGUEST
They just have not tracked where these birds go.
Brooks AgnewGUEST
So...
Brooks AgnewGUEST
I know Sir James Ross, he lost his first ship and part of his crew the first time he went up because he got caught in the Arctic ice.
Brooks AgnewGUEST
The ice smashed his ship.
Dorian RavenscroftGUEST
There's the Belgica, which was the Antarctic in the 1890s, but there's a few bits from that.
Dorian RavenscroftGUEST
that are referenced in white north and the i mean this isn't a spoiler i don't think because i mean it's kind of inevitable the scurvy uh that was actually based on i read this fantastic paper about like an academic paper about the james clark ross search expedition that went looking for franklin and they suffered unusually badly with scurvy And this academic paper kind of theorized that there might have been some damage to the lemon juice in order to make them get that sick.
Dorian RavenscroftGUEST
Because generally by that period, we had like eradicated scurvy, like the lemon juice did what it was meant to do.
Dorian RavenscroftGUEST
So, you know, it was like bits like that.
J.L. BaldwinNARRATOR
From the time that Captain Cook sailed round the unknown Southern Ocean more than a century ago, the British flag has waved in the forefront of the advance.
J.L. BaldwinNARRATOR
The work which Sir James Ross began over half a century since has now been carried farther than ever it was anticipated it could be.
J.L. BaldwinNARRATOR
By the voyage of the Discovery the Antarctic continent has been revealed to within five hundred miles of the pole, and in the gallant exploits of the commander, Captain Robert Scott, there are many who see a repetition of all that made the name of Franklin so immortal.
J.L. BaldwinNARRATOR
The source of the information on which these stories are based, as is frequently mentioned in the text, is the personal narrative of the explorer concerned where available, and if the interest aroused in any of them requires more to satisfy it than the exigencies of space renders possible in this volume, the attention which will thereby be drawn to the more comprehensive records will stand as a slight acknowledgement of the indebtedness of the writer of these retold stories to the authors of the original narratives.
34 MINS LATER
speaker_2NARRATOR
HMS Terror and Erebus were deserted on April the 22nd, five leagues north-northwest of this point, having been beset since September the 12th, 1846.
speaker_2NARRATOR
The officers and men, consisting of 105 souls under the command of Captain F.R.M. Crozier, landed here in latitude 69 degrees, 37 feet, 42 inches north, longitude 98 degrees, 41 feet west.
speaker_2NARRATOR
The paper was found by Lieutenant Irving in a cairn supposed to have been built by Sir James Ross in 1831, four miles to the north, where it had been deposited by the late Commander Gore in June 1847.
speaker_2NARRATOR
Sir James Ross's pillar has not, however, been found, and the paper has been transferred to this position, where it is thought is where Sir James Ross's pillar was erected.
J.L. BaldwinNARRATOR
From the time that Captain Cook sailed round the unknown Southern Ocean more than a century ago, the British flag has waved in the forefront of the advance.
J.L. BaldwinNARRATOR
The work which Sir James Ross began over half a century since has now been carried farther than ever it was anticipated it could be.
J.L. BaldwinNARRATOR
By the voyage of the Discovery the Antarctic continent has been revealed to within five hundred miles of the pole, and in the gallant exploits of the commander, Captain Robert Scott, there are many who see a repetition of all that made the name of Franklin so immortal.
J.L. BaldwinNARRATOR
The source of the information on which these stories are based, as is frequently mentioned in the text, is the personal narrative of the explorer concerned where available, and if the interest aroused in any of them requires more to satisfy it than the exigencies of space renders possible in this volume, the attention which will thereby be drawn to the more comprehensive records will stand as a slight acknowledgement of the indebtedness of the writer of these retold stories to the authors of the original narratives.
12 MINS LATER
Piotr NaterNARRATOR
The result of these two discoveries was to open up a very valuable fur trade, and for the next two hundred years fur traders and whalers were practically the only men who went into the frozen north.
Piotr NaterNARRATOR
In 1818 the British Navy again entered the field for the purpose of mapping out the northern coast of America.
Piotr NaterNARRATOR
Captains Ross and Parry were sent out in two vessels, with the result that knowledge of the locality was extended by the discovery of Lancaster Sound, Prince Regent Inlet, Barrow Strait and Melville Island.
Piotr NaterNARRATOR
The location of these islands and straits aroused still keener curiosity as to whether there was or was not a passage for ships leading from the Pacific to the Atlantic oceans along the north coast of America.
J.L. BaldwinNARRATOR
From the time that Captain Cook sailed round the unknown Southern Ocean more than a century ago, the British flag has waved in the forefront of the advance.
J.L. BaldwinNARRATOR
The work which Sir James Ross began over half a century since has now been carried farther than ever it was anticipated it could be.
J.L. BaldwinNARRATOR
By the voyage of the Discovery the Antarctic continent has been revealed to within five hundred miles of the pole, and in the gallant exploits of the commander, Captain Robert Scott, there are many who see a repetition of all that made the name of Franklin so immortal.
J.L. BaldwinNARRATOR
The source of the information on which these stories are based, as is frequently mentioned in the text, is the personal narrative of the explorer concerned where available, and if the interest aroused in any of them requires more to satisfy it than the exigencies of space renders possible in this volume, the attention which will thereby be drawn to the more comprehensive records will stand as a slight acknowledgement of the indebtedness of the writer of these retold stories to the authors of the original narratives.
12 MINS LATER
Piotr NaterNARRATOR
The result of these two discoveries was to open up a very valuable fur trade, and for the next two hundred years fur traders and whalers were practically the only men who went into the frozen north.
Piotr NaterNARRATOR
In 1818 the British Navy again entered the field for the purpose of mapping out the northern coast of America.
Piotr NaterNARRATOR
Captains Ross and Parry were sent out in two vessels, with the result that knowledge of the locality was extended by the discovery of Lancaster Sound, Prince Regent Inlet, Barrow Strait, and Melville Island.
Piotr NaterNARRATOR
The location of these islands and straits aroused still keener curiosity as to whether there was or was not a passage for ships leading from the Pacific to the Atlantic oceans along the north coast of America.
J.L. BaldwinNARRATOR
From the time that Captain Cook sailed round the unknown Southern Ocean more than a century ago, the British flag has waved in the forefront of the advance.
J.L. BaldwinNARRATOR
The work which Sir James Ross began over half a century since has now been carried farther than ever it was anticipated it could be.
J.L. BaldwinNARRATOR
By the voyage of the Discovery the Antarctic continent has been revealed to within 500 miles of the pole, and in the gallant exploits of the commander, Captain Robert Scott, there are many who see a repetition of all that made the name of Franklin so immortal.
J.L. BaldwinNARRATOR
The source of the information on which these stories are based, as is frequently mentioned in the text, is the personal narrative of the explorer concerned where available, and if the interest aroused in any of them requires more to satisfy it than the exigencies of space renders possible in this volume, the attention which will thereby be drawn to the more comprehensive records will stand as a slight acknowledgement of the indebtedness of the writer of these retold stories to the authors of the original narratives.
12 MINS LATER
Piotr NaterNARRATOR
The result of these two discoveries was to open up a very valuable fur trade, and for the next 200 years, fur traders and whalers were practically the only men who went into the frozen north.
Piotr NaterNARRATOR
In 1818, the British Navy again entered the field for the purpose of mapping out the northern coast of America.
Piotr NaterNARRATOR
Captains Ross and Parry were sent out in two vessels, with the result that knowledge of the locality was extended by the discovery of Lancaster Sound, Prince Regent Inlet, Barrow Strait, and Melville Island.
Piotr NaterNARRATOR
The location of these islands and straits aroused still keener curiosity as to whether there was or was not a passage for ships leading from the Pacific to the Atlantic oceans along the north coast of America.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Many naval officers volunteered their services, and even offered to bear a share of the expenses.
speaker_4NARRATOR
But Ross had already chosen as his second-in-command his nephew, Lieutenant James Ross, who had sailed with Parry in all his expeditions.
speaker_4NARRATOR
On the 23rd of May, 1829, the Victory sailed from Woolwich.
speaker_4NARRATOR
At the outset, the steam engine was found to be a failure.
J.L. BaldwinNARRATOR
From the time that Captain Cook sailed round the unknown Southern Ocean more than a century ago, the British flag has waved in the forefront of the advance.
J.L. BaldwinNARRATOR
The work which Sir James Ross began over half a century since has now been carried farther than ever it was anticipated it could be.
J.L. BaldwinNARRATOR
By the voyage of the Discovery, the Antarctic continent has been revealed to within five hundred miles of the pole, and in the gallant exploits of the commander, Captain Robert Scott, there are many who see a repetition of all that made the name of Franklin so immortal.
J.L. BaldwinNARRATOR
The source of the information on which these stories are based, as is frequently mentioned in the text, is the personal narrative of the explorer concerned where available, and if the interest aroused in any of them requires more to satisfy it than the exigencies of space renders possible in this volume, the attention which will thereby be drawn to the more comprehensive records will stand as a slight acknowledgement of the indebtedness of the writer of these retold stories to the authors of the original narratives.
35 MINS LATER
speaker_5NARRATOR
HMS Terror and Erebus were deserted on April the 22nd, five leagues north northwest of this point, having been beset since September the 12th, 1846.
speaker_5NARRATOR
The officers and men, consisting of 105 souls under the command of Captain F.R.M. Crozier, landed here in latitude 69 degrees, 37 feet, 42 inches north; longitude, 98 degrees, 41 feet west.
speaker_5NARRATOR
The paper was found by Lieutenant Irving in a cairn supposed to have been built by Sir James Ross in 1831, four miles to the north, where it had been deposited by the late Commander Gore in June 1847.
speaker_5NARRATOR
Sir James Ross's pillar has not, however, been found, and the paper has been transferred to this position, where it is thought is where Sir James Ross's pillar was erected.
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