On June 1, 1831, James Clark Ross discovered this when a compass needle he was holding pointed straight down
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Sir James Clark Ross | British explorer | Britannica.com  Sir James Clark Ross, (born April 15, 1800, London, Eng.died April 3, 1862, ... of his uncle, Sir John Ross, he located the north magnetic pole on June 1, 1831. ... and James Clark Ross, on a British expedition in 183943 that discovered the...
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Antarctic Explorers: James Clark Ross - South-Pole.com  James Clark Ross, born in 1800, entered the Navy at 11 years of age. ... On May 31, 1831, Ross located the position of the north magnetic pole on Boothia ... EREBUS and TERROR pulled up their anchors, sailed down the Derwent River, and ... His compass needle was behaving oddly; Ross determined he was within 500...
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North Magnetic Pole - Wikipedia  The North Magnetic Pole is the point on the surface of Earth's Northern Hemisphere at which the planet's magnetic field points vertically downwards (in other words, if a magnetic compass needle is allowed to rotate about a horizontal axis, it will point straight down). ... He was also the first to define the North Magnetic Pole as the point where the...
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jeopardy/131_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  NONFICTION | In "History of My Calamities", he wrote about his tragic romance with ... SCIENCE | On June 1, 1831, James Clark Ross discovered this when a compass needle he was holding pointed straight down | Magnetic North Pole.
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James Clark Ross - Wikipedia  Sir James Clark Ross (15 April 1800  3 April 1862) was a British naval officer and explorer ... Ross was born in London, the nephew of Sir John Ross, under whom he ... In 1841, James Ross discovered the Ross Sea, Victoria Land, and the ... the Ross expedition; The James Ross Strait Ross Bay, Ross Point and Rossoya...
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Navigation of the American Explorers - 15th to 17th Centuries ...  Navigation Tools for Dead Reckoning and Piloting ... Columbus noticed that, as one sailed across the Atlantic Ocean, the ... A heavy piece of lead at the end of a long marked line had a cavity in its bottom, which, when coated with ... Celestial navigational instruments were designed to help find a vessel's latitudeLatitude
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Compass - Wikipedia  A compass is an instrument used for navigation and orientation that shows direction relative to ... The magnetic compass was first invented as a device for divination as early as ... and later adopted for navigation by the Song Dynasty Chinese during the ... Modern compasses usually use a magnetized needle or dial inside a...
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Mariners Weather Log Vol. 52, No. 2, August 2008  May 15, 2015 ... The word lead is pronounced the same way as in lead pencil. ... Most nights and during bad weather they chose to bring their ships in to protected .... As Captain James Cook was conducting his voyages of exploration and discovery ... Polynesian navigators memorized the star compass as well as known...
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Break On Through | Outside Online  Jan 2, 2004 ... In 1497, explorer John Cabot sailed as far as the southeastern ... By the mid-1800s, the quest for a shipping shortcut had crystallized .... IN 1903, THE FIRST YEAR of what would be a three-year crossing of the Northwest Passage, Roald Amundsen wrote that ice conditions "had been unusually favorable.
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Jeopary Questions page 1876 - MOUNTAINS - TriviaBistro.com  THE AMERICAN FLAG: An editorial in this Hartford paper June 14, 1861 led to the first Flag Day observance in Connecticut that same day  "TRANS" SCIENCE:...
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Navigation at Sea, History of - important, system, marine, human  The angle in degrees was the latitude of the ship. ... that maps could be helpful and began keeping detailed records of their voyages. ... (The term "compass rose" comes from the figure's compass points, which resemble rose petals.) ... During the sixteenth century, the chip log was invented and used as a crude speedometer.
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Naval History Blog  Blog Archive  First American Sighting of ...  Jan 19, 2012 ... On January 19th, 1840, Lt. Charles Wilkes, during an expedition ... He has the distinction of being the first in the United States to set up fixed astronomical .... I gave the land the name of the Antarctic Continent, he wrote at this time. .... same extent as those of any explorer sighting land at a great distance.
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Navigation and Related Instruments in 16th-Century England - Fort ...  By the dawn of the sixteenth century, the ancient art of navigation had begun to develop rapidly ... It could be difficult to use an astrolabe when on a ship's deck. ... Polaris was the preferred star for measuring latitude because it is less than one ... As a result, mariners relied on the magnetic compass, an instrument developed...
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In 1933 Miss Mary McCabe donated the compass this pair used ...  Jul 12, 2016 ... In 1933 Miss Mary McCabe donated the compass this pair used between 1804 & 1806 # Quiz # Question. Amazing Videos Tube.
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The Columbia River - Broughton, 1792  "George Vancouver and William Broughton, 1792" ... Mr. Gray [Captain Robert Gray, who in May 1792 is given credit with "discovering" ... about W. by N. from a point Mr. Broughton called Village Point [Chinook Point, Washington], ... E. four miles to another point, which obtained the name of Point George [location of today's...
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The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 11 by Henry David ...  Within one mile of top: Potentilla tridentata, a very little fir, spruce, and canoe birch, one .... of the nineteenth century was discovered by Giovanni Donati on June 2, 1858. ... Its tail is at least as long as the whole of the Great Dipper, to whose handle, .... How many thoughts lie undeveloped, and as it were dormant, like these...
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History of the compass - Wikipedia  The history of the compass extends back for more than 2000 years. The first compasses were ... The earliest Chinese magnetic compasses were possibly used to order and harmonize buildings in accordance with .... The typical Chinese navigational compass was in the form of a magnetic needle floating in a bowl of water.
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Inventions and Discoveries - Scribd  French explorer Jacques Cousteau and engineer Emile Gagnan connected portable ... Although the Biro brothers are credited with the invention of 'the biro'. .... MORSE CODE  Samuel Morse invented Morse code in 1838.000 BC BOWS AND ARROWS Cave ... Other discoveries: Galileo was also interested in astronomy.
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Discovery Expedition - Wikipedia  The British National Antarctic Expedition, 190104, generally known as the Discovery ... The expedition did not make a serious attempt on the South Pole itself, with ... After Ross there were no recorded voyages into this sector of the Antarctic for ..... exactly where they were, and had no landmarks to help them fix a position.
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Naval History Blog  Blog Archive  Wilkes Exploring Expedition  May 14, 2011 ... LT Charles Wilkes USN, led the expedition in surveying South ... By CAPTAIN G. S. BRYAN, U. S. Navy ... was the discovery of the existence of an Antarctic Continent. ... He has the distinction of being the first in the United States to set up fixed ..... in 1841 when he sailed through this spot and found no land.
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Expedition News: March 2016  Mar 18, 2016 ... Thirty years ago last March 7, an eight-member team that included ... During his first visit in 1953, when he was the keynoter, he sat next to ... Fred Roots broke bread with Matthew Henson (Photo courtesy ... 10 post on Popsci.com: ... six-iron head attached to a lunar sample scoop handle to drive golf balls.