The revised edition of Gray (1846) (1875). Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the years 1839–1843, under the Command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross.īirds collected on the first expedition were described and illustrated by George Robert Gray and Richard Bowdler Sharpe in The Zoology of the Voyage of HMS Erebus & HMS Terror. The plants were described in the resulting The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. They conducted studies in magnetism, and returned with oceanographic data and collections of botanical and ornithological specimens. Both ships returned to the Falkland Islands before returning to the Antarctic in the 1842–1843 season. The following season, 1842, Ross continued to survey the "Great Ice Barrier", as it was called, continuing to follow it eastward. The crew then discovered the Ross Ice Shelf, which they were unable to penetrate, and followed it eastward until the lateness of the season compelled them to return to Van Diemen's Land. Mount Erebus, on Ross Island, was named after one ship and Mount Terror after the other. In January 1841, the crews of both ships landed on Victoria Land, and proceeded to name areas of the landscape after British politicians, scientists, and acquaintances. After two years' service in the Mediterranean Sea, Erebus was refitted as an exploration vessel for Antarctic service, and on 21 November 1840 – captained by James Clark Ross – she departed from Van Diemen's Land (now Tasmania) for Antarctica in company with HMS Terror.
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