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See also: British See also: rear-See also: admiral and Polar explorer, was See also: born in See also: London on the 15th of See also: April 1800
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He entered the See also: navy in 1812 under his See also: uncle, Captain (afterwards See also: Sir) See also: John
See also: Ross, whom he accompanied on his first Arctic voyage in See also: search of a See also: North-West passage (1818)
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Between 1819 and 1827 he returned four times to the same seas in the Arctic expeditions under See also: Parry, and in 1829-33 again served on the same See also: mission under his uncle, and while thus employed determined (1831) the position of the North Magnetic See also: Pole
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In 1834 he was promoted captain, and from 1835-38 was employed on the magnetic survey of See also: Great Britain
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In 1839-43 he commanded the See also: Antarctic expedition of the " See also: Erebus " and " Terror " (see POLAR REGIONS), and for this service he received a knight-See also: hood (1844) and was nominated to the French See also: order of the See also: Legion of Honour
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He published a narrative of this expedition under the title of A Voyage of See also: Discovery and Research to See also: Southern and Antarctic Regions (1847), and was the author also of various reports on zoological and other matters See also: relating to his earlier voyages
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He was elected to the Royal Society in 1848, and in that See also: year made his last expedition, as captain of the " Enter-prise," in the first See also: Franklin search expedition
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He died at See also: Aylesbury on the 3rd of April 1862
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