#james clark ross

[saints-who-never-existed]

Speaking of JCR - woe, his epaulettes be upon ye!

[jarvis-cockhead]

Went to the RGS and saw one of the actual copper collars they put on arctic foxes in an attempt to find Franklin survivors. Had to draw JCR about it

[i-am-countess-olivia]

What happened during the four year Ross Expedition - Francis' FIRST command - that made him so doubtful of his own ability to take up further command?

Just over a year between his return in September 1843 and setting out again with Franklin.

What the hell was on your mind, Francis, whilst you wandered around Florentine galleries with your “quiet” friends?

[dragawayyourbones]

A man working at the Maritime Museum asked me if I was looking for anything in particular and I said “the James Clark Ross portrait you guys have.” AND HE SAID “yeah you look like you were going after him. You just have that vibe”

[maliceandarrogance]

crozier going on the expedition because the woman who rejected him told him to VS ross staying home because he was a newlywed

[korpsewax]

mamma mia au where fitzjames is donna, fairholme is sophie, gore is sky, dundy is tanya, lady jane is rosie, crozier is sam, sir john is bill, and jcr is harry

[jeyneofpoole]

polar exploration dashboard simulator

🔖 drfreddyc

they call me the attainer. the way i attain these. poles. peary you can suck on my throbbing polar COCK!!!!!!!!

🍐 tearypeary

you will die like a dog

🍒 cherriesgarrard

yayyyyy i love my friends i love the ice yayyyyy this world is so beautiful and true

🍒 cherriesgarrard

MY FUCKING TEETH

🥫 franklinexpeditionofficial

HELP

🥫 franklinexpeditionofficial

HELP

🥫 franklinexpeditionofficial

HELP

⛴️ theotherross

brother i’m on the way

⛴️ theotherross

brother i’ve given up

⛓️ shacklez

my two polar exploring girlfriends. and yes, they traverse the frozen wasteland.

⛓️ shacklez

neverrrrrmind nevermind they fucking unionized the irish can’t have shit fuck this stupid baka life fuck you i hate you both fuckkkk you

🦅 falconscotts

get invalided idiot 🫵🫵🫵

⛄️ pengwilson

🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭

🇧🇪 degerlache-belgiums-boy

EAT YOUR SLOP LIKE A PATRIOT

🔖 drfreddyc

too late i’m already baking people

❄️ amundzen

i’ve been baked

🪙 le-cointe

honk schnoooo 😴🧨 honk schnoooo 😴🧨

🫀 emile-danco

NO!!!!! MY PREEXISTING CONDITION!!!!!!! FUCK!!!!!!!!!

🐧 belgicas-pet-penguin

told you so 👻

📜 peglarpapers

eerfreve eht hserf os werg ti c nepo eht c eht c eht

🛷 leopoldmcccclintock

whagttttthe fucckkkjkkkk

🏝️ beecheyislandofficial

🪦🪦🪦

🏝️ beecheyislandofficial

🪦🪦🪦 🪦

🏝️ beecheyislandofficial

um hello?????????

👤 thomas-morgan-deactivated18540522

don’t ask.

❄️ amundzen

dr frederick cook and i shared one beautiful night of passion on the polar ice in 1898 he pretended to be the south pole and i claimed him for norway it was the greatest night of my life but i wish it had hurt more alright commandant i’m just going to slip this under your door feel free to ask followup questions but the answers will be thorough and i will make it as bad as possible for you ok goodnight see you in hell yes i still quit. kill yourself you trifling whore. 📝💋 xoxo

[suddenly-frankenstein]

and then they've never seen each other again

[shipsandtea]

[asparklethatisblue]

James (Dear) vs James (Derogatory) strikes again

[prouvvaire]

one last rossier WIP before @sailoutsummerfest posting day this friday!!!! see you all there hehe

[jarvis-cockhead]

A question

[froggerland]

pov you’re re james clark ross and you want to take a picture with your husband that you freshly rescued out of the artic but he insists on bringing his bitch ass new boyfriend (who’s name is also james) with him (i thought we hated him francis tf??)

based on the painting below the cut (its literally named “us three”) i saw at an art gallery (the og three are the painter his wife and his brother but alas close enough)

[falling-through-a-trapdoor]

Bro knowing the historical context makes the first scene of the Terror just as devastating if not more so than many moments that come after. Like that is a man realizing that he will never see his best friend again. A man who gave up a vow to try to bring his best friend home and is realizing he’s going to fail. And the last thing he heard from this man was how miserable he was that JCR wasn’t with him and how much he missed him. Bro just kill me… I can’t handle this anymore

[piraticaltimes]

[the-golden-vanity]

I think the thing I like most about The Sea, as, like... a setting or a concept, is that in its vastness, its untameable nature, its unknown secrets, you have a lot of historically documented events that sound more like tales out of mythology and folklore.

Take, for instance, the fate of the Victory Expedition of 1829.

The Victory expedition was a private polar expedition led by veteran British explorer Captain John Ross. Twenty-three men set sail for the Canadian Arctic on the steamship Victory, but when the ship became trapped in the polar ice, there was no way to free it. The crew spent four years in the frozen north, surviving on rations from the wreck of a previous polar exploration ship.

Eventually, twenty survivors packed their belongings into small boats and hauled them over ice towards open water. And in that open water, there was a ship, the whaler Isabella of Hull.*

The Isabella's crew couldn't believe their eyes, because, as they told the Victory's survivors, "Captain Ross has been dead these two years."

And if that wasn't strange enough, the (very much alive) Captain Ross of the Victory had, on a previous Arctic expedition, been captain of the Isabella.

*Side note: the more I read about the Age of Sail, the more I realize that wherever official Explorers™ from a given Western nation go, their whalers have already beaten them there. Sometimes that's even the reason the explorers were sent.