Ross Island

American

noun

an island in the W Ross Sea, off the coast of Victoria Land: part of the Ross Dependency; location of Mt. Erebus.

Ross Island British

noun

an island in the W Ross Sea: contains the active volcano Mount Erebus

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Ross Island

The specimen was originally collected on James Ross Island and its discovery was recorded in a field notebook kept by geologist Dr Mike Thomson.

From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026

Erebus, seawater from McMurdo Sound, and soil from Ross Island and the Dry Valleys.

From Salon ● May 29, 2023

Ross Island Earth Station, an antenna intended to supply satellite internet to McMurdo next year.

From The Verge ● Nov. 23, 2021

For this paper, the researchers analyzed charcoal extracted from sediment on Antarctica’s James Ross Island in 2015 and 2016.

From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2021

The immense sheet of ice, over 400 miles wide and of still greater length, which lies south of Ross Island to the west of Victoria Land.

From Scott's Last Expedition Volume I by Scott, Robert Falcon

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