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1777-1856 John Ross was a British naval officer who led an unsuccessful search for the Northwest Passage in
1818 and then returned several years later and spent four winters in the Canadian Arctic. |
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1841-1904 Welsh-born Henry Morton Stanley began his career as an explorer by heading an expedition that
"found" David Livingstone. He went on to lead three expeditions that traced the course of the Congo River and the great lakes of central Africa. |
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