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  • Charles Clerke
    Charles Clerke
    Captain Charles Clerke RN was an officer in the Royal Navy who sailed on four voyages of exploration.Clerke started studying at the Royal Naval Academy in Portsmouth when he was 13. During the Seven Years' War he served aboard HMS Dorsetshire and HMS Bellona...

     (1741–1779), British naval officer and explorer.
  • Ellen Mary Clerke
    Ellen Mary Clerke
    Ellen Mary Clerke was an author, journalist, poet and popular science writer in the field of astronomy. She was born in Skibbereen, County Cork, in Ireland...

     (1840–1906), Irish journalist, poet and writer on astronomy.
  • Agnes Mary Clerke
    Agnes Mary Clerke
    Agnes Mary Clerke was an astronomer and writer, mainly in the field of astronomy. She was born at Skibbereen, County Cork, Ireland, and died in London.- Life and work :...

     (1842–1907), Irish astronomer and science writer.
  • Clerke
    Clerke (crater)
    Clerke is a tiny lunar crater. It is located near the eastern edge of Mare Serenitatis in the midst of a rille system named the Rimae Littrow after the crater Littrow to the east. Clerke is roughly circular and cup-shaped, with a relatively high albedo...

    , a lunar crater named after Agnes Mary Clerke.
  • The Clerke Rocks
    Clerke Rocks
    The Clerke Rocks are a group of small rocky islands 74 kilometres southeast of South Georgia Island that extend 8 kilometre from east to west. The Clerke Rocks include The Office Boys at the northeastern end and Nobby at the southeastern end of the group...

    , a group of small rocky islands in the South Atlantic, named after Charles Clerke.