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Noun: Sir James Clark Ross
  1. British explorer of the Arctic and Antarctic; located the north magnetic pole in 1831; discovered the Ross Sea in Antarctica; nephew of Sir John Ross (1800-1862)
    - Ross, James Clark Ross

Type of: adventurer, explorer

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