He remarked that "there's no more chance of sailing through that than through the cliffs of Dover" when he discovered a feature he called the Victoria (*) Barrier.
The only species in genus Rhodostethia is a gull named for this man, notable for its black necklace and pink chest; that species was found nesting at Churchill, Manitoba in 1980. The strait between King William Land and the Boothia Peninsula is named for this man, who was frozen in there on an expedition with his uncle John and captained HMS Cove on a voyage that failed to save the stranded whaling ship William Torr. He remarked that "there's no more chance of sailing through that than through the cliffs of Dover" when he discovered a feature he called the Victoria (*) Barrier. Although he's not John Franklin, he led the Erebus and Terror on an 1841 expedition that searched for the ► South Magnetic Pole. For 10 points, what British explorer's name is applied to Antarctica's largest ice shelf? 
The only species in genus Rhodostethia is a gull named for this man, notable for its black necklace and pink chest; that species was found nesting at Churchill, Manitoba in 1980.
James Clark Ross