Northwest Passage rediscovered.(Report)

From: Arena Magazine | Date: February 1, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

The Northwest Passage was one of those big ideas mingling geopolitical and economic hope with futuristic fantasy for centuries, and generating much practical European maritime exploration at the cost of many lives. Captain Cook's final voyage was in part an attempt to find the western end of such a waterway, and he found Asia and America separate continents locked in by impenetrable Arctic ice. The Franklin voyages came later and the many searchers for Franklin filled out Arctic maps, giving cause to both Inuit and Europeans to puzzle about each other.

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