Captain francis crozier
Francis Crozier was an Arctic explorer of great skill and bravery. His disappearance with his ship and crew and the ordeal that followed has been a subject of mystery and fascination since Victorian times. His father George, was a solicitor and had built the family home Avonmore House in It is situated at 15 Church Square in the town. Francis was the 11th of 13 children.
Francis and his siblings attended the local school. Two of his brothers went on to become Presbyterian ministers, and another Thomas, joined the legal profession. However, Francis seems to have had a desire for adventure. With the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the British Admiralty set its sights on exploration. However, this and two more arduous journeys undertaken by Parry and Crozier were thwarted by atrocious weather conditions and the southward drift of thick ice sheets.
In , now a lieutenant, Francis Crozier enlisted with James Clark Ross, on a four-year expedition to explore and chart Antarctica. James Clark Ross was born in in London into a sailing family. His uncle Sir John Ross was already a noted Polar explorer.
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James entered the Royal Navy just a few days before his 12th birthday. On 1st January , the Ross expedition crossed the Antarctic Circle. The teams were successful in exploring this unknown continent and were the first to produce accurate maps of the region. As second-in-command, Crozier was very involved with research and data collection.