The Northwest Passage was a route from Europe to Asia going west. Instead of going around South America, this passage went through northern Canada. It was the fastest route to Asia. The Northwest Passage was the holy grail of exploration for more than four hundred years. Explorers raced to find the passage that not only would bring great fame and fortune to their country, but to them as well. The voyage through the passage required great knowledge and skill, an abundance of supplies, and advanced technology. Members also needed mental and physical toughness. The cold climate tested their toughness. Explorers were determined to complete this difficult voyage. That determination took over 300 years to finally find this route. The Northwest Passage proved to be one of the fastest routes to Asia, but the subzero climate challenged many explorers who attempted to pass through.
The Northwest Passage is located five hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle and about twelve hundred miles south from the North Pole. The route is nine hundred miles long through the deep channels of Canada’s Arctic Islands. Within this passage, there are an estimated fifty thousand icebergs which are three hundred feet tall. The ice sheets made travel through the passage very difficult. The cold temperatures made the travel even worse. The region is a polar desert, which is cold and dry. The average annual temperature is seven degrees Fahrenheit. Explorers faced these many obstacles to find the passage.
John Cabot was the first explorer to search for the passage. Accompanied by his son, Sebastian Cabot, he set sail in 1498. He mainly explored the Canadian coastline. Cabot claimed lands for England and named many islands and capes. Although Cabot thought he ...
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...men became the first ones to successfully finish this route by only boat. In 1944, a Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant successfully crossed the Northwest Passage and was the first one to complete the journey in a single season.
The Northwest Passage proved to be one of the fastest routes to Asia, but the subzero climate challenged many explorers who attempted to pass through. It is a challenging route that took a few hundred years to successfully complete. The cold, harsh climate made it almost impossible for any explorer to find this passage. It took great skill and tenacity to be on the expeditions. The Northwest Passage is considered to be one of the most dangerous shortcuts in the world. The icebergs, ice sheets, and below freezing temperatures verified this to be true along with the fact that it took man 300 years to complete this one route!
His first voyage took place in 1598 with his uncle. He was on his own for his next trip which lasted 2 years. He was in France from 1603 until 1607. They then found some West Indians that
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Then there was another Italian explorer, he to commanded the English exploration and alter discovered the North American mainland. He was John Cabot.
This all began when Sir Walter Raleigh, a wealthy courtier, sought-after permission from Queen Elizabeth I to establish a colony in North America. On March 25th 1584 he got a charter to start the colony. Raleigh funded and authorized the expedition .He sent two explorers by the names of Phillip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe to claim land for the queen,they departed on the west side of England on April 27th . On May 10 they arrived at the Canaries, a series of islands near the northwest coast of mainland Africa. They arrived at the West Indies on June 10 and stayed there for twelve days then left. On July 4 the explorers saw North American land, they sailed for nine days more looking for an entryway to the sea or river and found one on June 13th. They then set off to explore the land and place it on the map . After they went back two additional journeys there followed after. One group arrived in 1585 and went there for...
Captain Meriwether Lewis and William Clark took the risk of life, limb, and liberty to bring back the precious and valuable information of the Pacific Northwest of the United States territory. Their accomplishments of surviving the trek and delivering the data to the U.S. government, have altered the course of history, but have some Historian’s and author’s stating, “It produced nothing useful.”, and having “added little to the stock of science and wealth. Lewis and Clark’s expedition is one of the most famous and most unknown adventures of America’s frontier.
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Nowadays, it is a very dangerous and risky adventure to take a ship to the Northern Sea. We are so advanced in technology, but still no one wants to risk their lives. The captain and his crew were traveling during the navigation season, but they were facing fog and icebergs on their way. They were stuck in ice and mist for a whole day. Finally, around two o?clock the fog and mist was gone and they could only see the endless ice surrounding them.
The Lewis and Clark expedition across the present day United States began May 14, 1804. With the approval of President Jefferson and the U.S. Congress, Lewis and Clark gathered an exploration party of about four dozen men. These men headed off to discover Western America. On September 1, 1805, they arrived at the Bitterroot Mountains, near present day Idaho. This began a nightmare that would not end until they reached modern-day Weippe. September 1, 1805, the explorers set out traveling west, heading into rough, seldom traveled, mountainous country. They stopped at today’s North Fork of the Salmon River, known as Fish Creek to Lewis and Clark, where they caught five fish, and were able to kill a deer (MacGregor 125). Some of the men’s feet and horse’s hooves were injured due to the rough, rocky terrain. The next day, they were entering mountains far more difficult to pass than any American had ever attempted (Ambros 284). Clark describes the route: "Throu’ thickets in which we were obliged to cut a road, over rocky hillsides where horses were in perpetual danger of slipping to their certain distruction and up and down steep hills…" (De Voto 232). Traveling along the steep hills, several horses fell. One was crippled, and two gave out. Patrick Gass described the trip that day as, "…the worst road (If road it can be called) that was ever traveled" (MacGregor 125). To make conditions even worse, it rained that afternoon, which made the trail even more treacherous. The party was only able to travel five miles that day. On September 3, snow fell and the team’s last thermometer broke. Several more horsed slipped and injured themselves. Later that day, the snow turned into sleet. The expedition family consumed the last of their salt pork and fish and began their descent into the Bitterroot Valley. That night, was the coldest yet. The next day, the party went down a very steep descent to a river that Lewis named, Clark’s River, (Today known as The Bitterroot River.) There, they encountered a band of Salish Indians, whom the captains called Flatheads. They stayed there with the Indians the next couple of days to trade. They acquired thirteen new Appaloosa Horses, including three colts, for seven worn out horses. The Salish Indians shared berries and roots with the men for their meals. On September 6, they set off traveling northward along the Bitterroot River for about ten miles.
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The weather that Americans traveled through caused more problems than good. The Oregon Trail isn’t a flat trail. There are many hills and mountains that need to be climbed and rivers that need to be crossed. During the time on the Oregon Trail, the weather could make those obstacles a deadly scene. When climbing mountains, the dirt path could be soaked with water. The amount of rain or snow that had fell made it hard for some of the ox to pull the wagons up the hill. Americans would have to get out and help push their covered wagon up these steep hill. This caused many injuries and death in some
The most posing problems with the set routes to Asia, which went around the Cape of Good Hope and along the coast of Africa, were that it was very dangerous due to enemy colonies along the route and was also very long. These problems made some people, including Christopher Columbus, decide to turn to the west to find safer and faster routes to the riches of Asia. What they found was the Americas. Believing that he would reach Asia, Columbus accidentally found a new continent, full of new riches and unclaimed lands. All of this occurred near the end of the Renaissance, beginning with the founding of America in 1492, near the end of the 15th century.