The Ross seal, one of the four Antarctic phocids, first described during the Ross expedition[9] The James Ross Strait Ross Bay, Ross Point and Rossoya in the Arctic are all named after him.[10] RRS James Clark Ross is a British Antarctic Survey research ship.[11] The crater Ross on the Moon is jointly named after James Clark Ross and Frank Elmore Ross. Ross's gull, a small gull, the only species in its genus, that breeds in the high arctic of northernmost North America and northeast Siberia[12] Ross Dependency, Ross Island, Ross Ice Shelf[13] and Ross Sea in the Antarctic are all named after him.[10]