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Northwest Passage The Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen was one of the most important people in the history of polar exploration. He traveled to both the Arctic and the Antarctic, and he was the first person to reach the South Pole. (1872-1928). One of the most important figures in the history of polar exploration was Roald Amundsen. He was the first person to reach the South Pole, the first to sail through the Northwest Passage, and the first to fly over the North Pole.
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Franklin Expedition hunt turns up human remains, artifacts believed to be from long-lost Arctic ship wreck “These were really exciting finds.”. Sir John Franklin set out from England on May 19, 1845, on a mission to find the Northwest Passage through the Arctic. He had two Royal Navy ships — the HMS Erebus and the HMS Terror — a crew of 135, and provisions for what was expected to be a three-year journey.
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Alaska Fish Factor: Good Prices for Halibut and Sablefish Harvesters At Homer and in Southeast Alaska, halibut prices have yet to drop below six bucks a pound, said local processors. Dock prices at Homer last week ranged from $6.50 to $7.00 per pound “for very small loads.”. At Southeast, after reaching a high of $6.75 at Easter, halibut prices were $6.60/$6.40 /$6.10 per pound. Processors are reporting “strong halibut catches and lots of nice fish”. The fresh fish is being flown out almost daily from Southeast and distributed in small lots to markets all over the US.
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- Kids learn about the biography and life of explorer Roald Amundsen. First man to the South Pole.
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USS Nautilus (SSN-571) On August 3, 1958 at 11:15 pm USS Nautilus became the first watercraft to reach the North Pole, Commander William R. Anderson, Commanding Officer of Nautilus announced to the crew, For the world, Our Country, and the Navy...the North Pole.
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Roald Amundsen Was First to Reach the South Pole One hundred years ago, on December 14, 1911, the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen and his team became the first people to reach the Geographic South Pole. The Geographic South Pole is the southernmost point on Earth. It is located on the ice-covered continent of Antarctica.
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- In 1610, he was commissioned to search for the Northwest Passage by the British East India Company. He commanded the Discovery, and sailed on April 17, 1610. In June of 1610, he entered what is now the Hudson Strait, but strong currents made him stay in Ungava Bay, north of present-day Quebec, Canada.
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- Cook left Nootka Sound in April 1778 and sailed north along the Alaskan coast looking for inlets that might lead to the Northwest passage but was then forced to turn south. By July he had rounded the Alaskan Peninsula and was able to sail north again, visiting the Chukotskiy Peninsula, Russia, before heading out into the Bering Sea.
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- Endeavour left New Zealand and sailed along the east coast of New Holland, or Australia, heading north (April-August 1770). Cook started to chart the east coast and on 29th April landed for the first time in what Cook called Stingray, later, Botany Bay.
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Journal Mary Gad tells us that having long been fascinated by the polar regions she found the name of an island called Pickersgill Island. This intrigued Mary as her own maiden name was Pickersgill. She says I knew that Captain Cook found South Georgia and therefore presumed that he had named this small island.
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- It wasn't until the 6th of October 1769 that Captain Cook onboard his ship the endeavour arrived in New Zealand. It was a 12 year old boy called Nicholas Young that has been credited with the first sighting of land which is now called Young Nicks Head.
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La Navidad: First European Settlement in the Americas The Santa Maria María Runs: Aground columbus had three ships with him on his first voyage to The: americas The, nina Niña, the pinta And The. Santa maria maría they discovered Unknown lands in october of 1492. and began exploring
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Who discovered Antarctica? Captain James Cook was the first to cross the Antarctic Circle on the 17th of January, 1773, and reached a latitude of 67 degrees 15 minutes S. It is not clear whether or not …he actually set eyes on Antarctica since the ice pack prevented any further southward progress.
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- Roald Amundsen Roald Amundsen was born in Norway in 1872. Even when he was young Amundsen knew he wanted to be a polar explorer. But since his parents wanted to be a doctor, he studied medicine until he was 21. In 1897 Amundsen went on his first expedition to the Antarctic as the first mate of the ship Belgica.
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'Ailing' Buzz Aldrin in Emergency Evacuation from South Pole The International Association of Antarctic Tour Operators confirmed Aldrin's evacuation, saying he was stable when he was taken from the South Pole to McMurdo base in Antarctica. Aldrin, 86, was the second man to walk on the moon as part of the 1969 Apollo 11 crew.
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Archeologists Recover Ancient Navigation Tool From Shipwreck The device, called an astrolabe, was used to sight the height of the sun to determine the ship’s latitude, or distance from the equator. The astrolabe came from the shipwreck of the Portuguese vessel Esmerelda, which sank in the Indian Ocean in 1503.
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Voyages of Exploration and Trade In the summer of the eighth year of her reign, Queen Hatshepsut (1498-1483 BCE) sent Senenmet with a fleet of five ships with thirty rowers each from Qoseir, on the Red Sea, to the Land of Punt, often also called God's Land.n the summer of the eighth year of her reign, Queen Hatshepsut (1498-1483 BCE) sent Senenmet with a fleet of five ships with thirty rowers each from Qoseir, on the Red Sea, to the Land of Punt, often also called God's Land.
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- Alphabetized by author. 1  Victory awaits him who has everything in order — luck, people call it. Defeat is certain for him who has neglected to take the necessary precautions in time; this is called bad luck.  Roald Amundsen, The South Pole (1912).
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Roald Amundsen Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (. [ˈɾuːɑl ˈɑmʉnsən] ; 16 July 1872 – c. 18 June 1928) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led the Antarctic expedition of 1910–12 which was the first to reach the South Pole, on 14 December 1911. In 1926, he was the first expedition leader for the air expedition to the North Pole. Amundsen is recognized as the first person, without dispute, as having reached both poles. He is also known as having the first expedition to traverse the Northwest Passage (1903–06) in the Arctic. In June 1928, while taking part in a rescue mission for the Airship Italia, the plane he was in disappeared.
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Exploration and Discovery Christopher Columbus sail the ocean blue in 1492. and he explored the northern, middle, and southern colonies. Christopher Columbus sail the ocean blue in 1492. and he explored the northern, middle, and southern colonies. In 1492 Columbus made the first of four trips to the Caribbean on three Spanish ships named the Niña, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria
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- Location: Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. Current Time: Jan 18, 2018 at 9:38:44 pm. Latest Report: Jan 18, 2018 at 7:00 pm. Visibility: 7 mi. Pressure: N/A. Humidity: N/A. Dew Point: N/A
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SMS Scharnhorst In August 1914 Vice-Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee commanded a small squadron of German warships, led by the armoured cruisers SMS Scharnhorst and SMS Gneisenau, which was located at the Caroline Islands in the western Pacific.
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Russian America In 1648 Semyon Dezhnev sailed from the mouth of the Kolyma River through the Arctic Ocean and around the eastern tip of Asia to the Anadyr River. One legend holds that some of his boats were carried off course and reached Alaska.
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Franklin's lost expedition Franklin's lost expedition was a British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845. A Royal Navy officer and experienced explorer, Franklin had served on three previous Arctic expeditions, the latter two as commanding officer.
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HMS Resolute  (1850) HMS Resolute (1850) HMS Resolute was a mid-19th-century barque-rigged ship of the British Royal Navy, specially outfitted for Arctic exploration. Resolute became trapped in the ice and was abandoned in 1854. Recovered by an American whaler, she was returned to Queen Victoria in 1856. Timbers from the ship were later used to construct a desk which was presented to the President of the United States and is currently located in the White House Oval Office.
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HMS Resolute  (1850) In May, Captain Kellett left Resolute locked in the slowly moving floe ice, and led his men in a hard march across the ice to reach the ships of the expedition at Beechey Island. Their number included the officers and crew of Investigator, rescued by Kellett in the spring of 1853, and the men from Intrepid and Resolute.