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Ross Island

American  

noun

  1. 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

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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

Tiny fragments of fossilized charcoal unearthed on James Ross Island provides evidence that those plants burned in wildfires.

From Washington Post Oct. 29, 2021

On Ross Island there are four volcanic mountains, the highest being Mount Erebus, about 12,450 feet.

From Judgments of the Court of Appeal of New Zealand on Proceedings to Review Aspects of the Report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Mount Erebus Aircraft Disaster C.A. 95/81 by New Zealand. Court of Appeal

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