Polar Explorers for Kids: Historic Expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic with 21 Activities
thousand years Polar Explorers for Kids will introduce you to many of these extraordinary adventurers to the wonders that are known about the incredible lands they explored and to the mysteries that have yet to be solved by future explorers maybe
Part I The Arctic Bering Sea St Lawrence Island See of Okhotsk Chukoda Peninsula Alaska Chukchi Beafort Victoria Island Pack ice Arctic Ocean North Pole Russia Hudso Bay Ellesmere Island Baffin Strait Greenland Baffin island Barents Sea Newfoundland Finland Iceland
Arctic Exploration Time Line 5000 Inuit people formerly called Eskimos establish themselves in the Arctic region A D 860 870 Vikings discover and settle Iceland 981 986 Erik the Red locates and settles Greenland an Inte 1001 Leif Eriksson Erik the Red's son explores Baffin Island Labrador and Newfoundland 1272 Marco Polo explores China 1492 Christopher Columbus explores the West Indies and the New World 1497 John Cabot discovers Newfoundland Europeans begin to contemplate creating a Northwest Passage a route to China through the Arctic 1498 Christopher Columbus explores South Amer 1ca 1500 João Fernande's reaches Greenland Gaspar Corte Real reaches Newfoundland kidnaps 57 Indians and takes them back to
Portugal 1510 Leonardo da Vinci invents the horizontal water wheel which leads to the creation of turbine engines 1519 1522 Magellan circumnavigates the globe 1575 1590s Tycho Brahe sets up an astronomy observato ry develops his theory of a sun centered solar system 1585 Martin Frobisher reaches Baffin Island 1585 1587 John Davis sails into Baffin Bay along Greenland's and Labrador's coasts 1607 Henry Hudson reaches northern Green land Spitsbergen and the Siberian coast 1610 1611 Henry Hudson and his son discover James Bay their crew mutinies and sets them adrift in a small boat and they vanish and are presumed dead Whaling industry is in full swing 1620 Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock 1670s Fur trade is established in the Arctic join ing whaling sealing and cod fishery indus tries
