In 1829, he set out with his uncle to find the Northwest Passage through Prince Regent Inlet, and the next year he discovered King William Land after crossing the Isthmus of Boothia.
In 1829, he set out with his uncle to find the Northwest Passage through Prince Regent Inlet, and the next year he discovered King William Land after crossing the Isthmus of Boothia. In 1848, he sailed into the Lancaster Sound in an attempt to relieve John Franklin's expedition, and almost rediscovered the Northwest Passage Franklin found before dying. FTP, name this explorer, who in 1831 put the British flag on the north magnetic pole, best known for an 1841 expedition to Antartica in the Erebus and Terror in which he named an island, sea, and ice shelf after himself.
In 1829, he set out with his uncle to find the Northwest Passage through Prince Regent Inlet, and the next year he discovered King William Land after crossing the Isthmus of Boothia.
James Clark {Ross}