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James Ross ended his days, by contrast, full of honours and high
in public esteem. His 1839-43 expedition won him a knighthood and
the Gold Medals of the Geographical Societies of London and Paris.
The University of Oxford conferred an honorary doctorate on him
and he was widely acknowledged as the leading expert on polar geo-
graphy. This venerated sailor finally came home from the sea in 1849
and enjoyed several years of quiet, distinguished retirement before
being gathered to his fathers in 1862.
D'Urville, Wilkes, Ross - three great circumnavigators; three
very different men; three explorers whose names, deservedly, are
permanently recorded on the map of Antarctica.
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i.e. Mount Erebus
