"In a few minutes, after getting before the wind, she dashed through the narrow channel between two perpendicular walls of ice, and the foaming breakers which stretched across it, and the next moment we were in smooth water under its lee". There was a huge amount of damage to the EREBUS but repairs were quickly made and by March 15 they resumed their voyage. The expedition finally arrived at the Falkland Islands, after a brief stay at Cape Horn, where they remained for nearly five months. Ross departed the Falklands on December 17, 1842, for his third and final season in the Antarctic. His desire was to penetrate the Weddell Sea and add to the research done by Weddell in 1822. Unfortunately, he met with "dense, impenetrable, pack ice". Abandoning his plan, Ross crossed the Antarctic Circle on March 5, 1843, and the TERROR sailed for home. Ross wrote: "The shores of Old England came into view at 5h 20m A.M. on the 2nd of September, and we anchored off Folkestone at midnight of the 4th". The voyage was completed after four years and five months at sea. From Ross's departure in 1843 until the last decade of the 19th century, Antarctica was almost solely the domain of the sealer. There were a few exceptions. In 1844-45 the Admiralty sent out Lieutenant T.E.L. Moore in the barque PAGODA to carry out magnetic work in the south Atlantic and southern Indian Oceans. The Challenger Expedition of the British Admiralty in 1872-75