Editing Mount Erebus (section)

===Discovery and naming===
Mount Erebus was discovered on 27 January 1841 (and observed to be in eruption),<ref>{{cite book | last=Ross | first=J.C. | title=A Voyage of Discovery and Research in the Southern and Antarctic Regions, During the Years 1839-43 | publisher=John Murray | volume=1 | year=1847 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kjoNAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA216 | page=216-218}}</ref> by polar explorer Sir [[James Clark Ross]] on [[Ross expedition|his Antarctic expedition]], who named it and its companion, [[Mount Terror (Antarctica)|Mount Terror]], after his ships, [[HMS Erebus (1826)|HMS ''Erebus'']] and [[HMS Terror (1813)|HMS ''Terror'']] (which were later used and lost by Sir [[John Franklin]] on his disastrous [[Arctic]] [[Franklin's lost expedition|expedition]]). Present with Ross on HMS ''Erebus'' was the young [[Joseph Dalton Hooker|Joseph Hooker]], future president of the [[Royal Society]] and close friend of [[Charles Darwin]]. [[Erebus]] is a dark region in [[Hades]] in [[Greek mythology]], personified as the [[Greek primordial deities|Ancient Greek primordial deity]] of darkness, the son of [[Chaos (mythology)|Chaos]].<ref>Hesiod, ''Theogony'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Hes.+Th.+116 116–124].</ref>