About John Ross (Royal Navy officer)
Rear-Admiral Sir John Ross was a British naval officer and explorer. He was the uncle of Sir James Clark Ross, who explored the Arctic with him, and later led expeditions to Antarctica. He named the apparent mountains "Croker Mountains", in honour of John Wilson Croker, then first secretary of the Admiralty. In 1786, aged nine, Ross joined the Royal Navy as a first-class volunteer and was assigned to HMS Pearl. In 1818, Ross received the command of an Arctic expedition organised by the British Admiralty, the first of a new series of attempts to answer the question of a North West Passage.
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