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1 day ago · Together with nationalism, geomagnetic surveying was the main motivation behind, for example, the 1839–43 British expedition led by British explorer James Clark Ross, which discovered the Ross Sea, the Ross Ice Barrier (now called the Ross Ice Shelf), and the Victoria Land coast.
4 days ago · George Herbert Leigh-Mallory (18 June 1886 – 8 or 9 June 1924) was an English mountaineer who participated in the first three British Mount Everest expeditions in the early 1920s. He and Andrew Irvine were last seen ascending near Everest's summit, during the 1924 expedition, sparking debate as to whether they reached it before they died.
3 days ago · Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt[a] (14 September 1769 – 6 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. [5]
5 days ago · James Murray, 58, and Connor Murray, 29, were arrested in March 2024 after officers from Police Scotland searched the property and vehicle where they found the drugs and a firearm.
2 days ago · 2- Captain Cook explorer and scholar. Captain James Cook was keen on his studies of maths and astronomy, which helped him climb the ranks quickly and become a skilled navigator. It also helped inform Captain James Cook’s voyages for the Royal Society to the Pacific Ocean later on in his life. By 24 years old, Cook had passed his exams to ...
17 hours ago · Jonas Salk (1914–1995), American biologist developed one of the first successful polio vaccines. Robert Sapolsky (born 1957), American neuroscientist who studies sources of stress in wild baboons. Georg Ossian Sars (1837–1927), Norwegian marine biologist [325] who studied the eggs and larvae of fish.
5 days ago · Two men have been jailed after cocaine and a firearm was found at a property in Glasgow. James Murray, 58, and Connor Murray, aged 29, were arrested in March after police searched a property...
