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Summary Of: Polar exploration

A seminal event in polar exploration occurred in 1409...

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| citations | verification | reliable references | challenged | Image:Split-arrows.svg | split | Discuss | Arctic | Antarctic | Earth | Arctic Circle | Antarctic Circle | Roald Amundsen explored the North pole and led the first successful South Pole expedition | | Roald Amundsen | A map of the Arctic.  The Arctic region is circled by the red line. | | Arctic Circle | ancient Greece | Pytheas | Aristotle | Massilia | Marseilles | Mediterranean | Pillars of Hercules | Brittany | Cornwall | British Isles | Thule | curdled | aurora | midnight sun | Norwegian | Shetland Islands | Iceland | Roman | citation needed | Strabo | citation needed | Middle Ages | citation needed | Irish | monks | currachs | geese | citation needed | Vikings | monastic | Viking sailors reached the White Sea to the east and Greenland and North America to the west. | | Faroe Islands | citation needed | Gunnbjörn Ulfsson | Greenland | Erik the Red | Little Ice Age | citation needed | Christopher Columbus | Pope Alexander VI | pasturage | Vinland | Markland | citation needed | Thorfinn Karlsefni | Labrador | Quebec | Helluland | Baffin Island | Ohthere from Hålogaland | Kola Peninsula | White Sea | Pechenga Monastery | Kola | Pomors | Barents Region | Spitsbergen | Novaya Zemlya | Northern Sea Route | Ural | Mangazeya | Yamal Peninsula | citation needed | Semyon Dezhnev | Bering Strait | settlers | White sea | Pomor's | northeast passage | Arkhangelsk | Yenisey | Mangazeya | A 1763 Chinese map of the world, claiming to incorporate information from a 1418 map. Note the coastline of Antarctica along the bottom. | | 1421 hypothesis | Gavin Menzies | Ming China | Zheng He | South Shetland Islands | Beijing | Cape of Good Hope | Hong Bao | New York Times bestseller | peer reviewed | 1421 hypothesis | University of Arkansas | Jan Jansson's map of the "Poli Arctici" from 1644. | | Inventio Fortunata | Gerardus Mercator | Venice | Niccolo and Antonio Zeno | map | citation needed | Patent from King Henry VII, authorizing John Cabot and his sons to explore new lands in the west. | | Henry VII | Ptolemy | Geographia | latitude and longitude | citation needed | Marco Polo | citation needed | Treaty of Tordesillas | Atlantic Ocean | Spain | Portugal | John Cabot | Northwest Passage | east | Sebastian | Hugh Willoughby | Richard Chancellor | scurvy | Dvina River | Tsar | Ivan the Terrible | Moscow | Muscovy Company | Stephen Borough | Kara Sea | A 1570 map by Ortelius shows the imagined link between the proposed continent of Antarctica and South America. Also note the proposed landmasses surrounding the North Pole. | | Aristotle | citation needed | Lopes Gonçalves | equator | Ferdinand Magellan | Straits of Magellan | Tierra del Fuego | citation needed | Northern Sea Route | shipping | Russian | Far East | Siberia | Gerasimov | citation needed | citation needed | Willem Barentsz | Spitsbergen | Bear Island | Cossacks | kochs | Semyon Dezhnev | Kolyma | Chukchi Peninsula | citation needed | Vitus Bering | Kamchatka | Bering Strait | Diomede Islands | citation needed | Northwest Passage | Northwest Passage routes | | Arctic Ocean | Jacques Cartier | Saint Lawrence River | Martin Frobisher | Frobisher Bay | Humphrey Gilbert | Elizabeth I | John Davis | Cumberland Sound | Baffin Island | Arctic | citation needed | Hudson Bay | Anglo-Spanish War | citation needed | John Ross | William Edward Parry | James Clark Ross | John Franklin | George Back | John Rae | Robert McClure | McClure Strait | Banks Island | Melville Island | Roald Amundsen | Gjøa | Eagle, Alaska | Robert Peary and sledge party with flags at North Pole.  Peary has been claimed to be the first person to reach the north pole. | | Robert Peary | Robert Peary | North Pole | Tom Avery | husky dogs | William Edward Parry | Polaris expedition | Fridtjof Nansen | Frederick Albert Cook | Ralph Plaisted | Wally Herbert | Richard Weber | Canada | Russia | Roald Amundsen | Lincoln Ellsworth | airship | Norge | Italian | Umberto Nobile | Joseph O. Fletcher | William P. Benedict | Albert P. Crary | Antarctic circle | James Cook | Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen | New Style | Russian | Saint Petersburg | Edward Bransfield | Nathaniel Palmer | Terra Australis | Peter I Island | Alexander I Island | Antarctic Peninsula | James Weddell | Weddell Sea | Charles Wilkes | United States Navy | Wilkes Land | James Clark Ross | Ross Ice Shelf | ice shelf | Mount Erebus | Adrian de Gerlache | citation needed | Carstens Borchgrevink | Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition | Amundsen and his party | December 14 | 1911 | Polheim | Haakon VII's Vidde | Haakon VII of Norway | Robert Falcon Scott | Ernest Shackleton | Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition | Sir Edmund Hillary in 1958 after accompanying the first plane to land at the Marble Point ground air strip - Antarctica | | United States Navy | Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station | International Geophysical Year | Edmund Hillary | Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition | Vivian Fuchs | 2006 | 10-19 | Journal of World History | doi | 2006 | 10-19 | 2006 | 10-20 | 2006 | 10-20 | 2006 | 10-20 | Frederick Cook | 2006 | 10-20 | 2006 | 09-19 | Whitby | ISBN 0-905355-25-3 | 2006 | 10-20 | 13 November | 2006 | Menzies, Gavin | ISBN 0-06-053763-9 | Berton, Pierre | ISBN 0-385-65845-1 | | Wikisource | List of polar explorers | North Pole | South Pole | Geography of Antarctica | List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands | History of research ships | Categories | Exploration of the Arctic | Exploration of Antarctica | Polar exploration | Articles needing additional references from August 2008 | Wikipedia articles to be split from August 2008 | All articles with unsourced statements | Articles with unsourced statements since February 2007 |
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