For the first time in history, a British team sets out on a sailboat for the arctic. Previously it w
For the first time in history, a British team sets out on a sailboat for the arctic. Previously it would have been impossible to use a sailboat to travel to the arctic, but due to climate change, it is now warm enough to attempt. Today, we’re highlighting other northern sailing adventures. For hundreds of years, explorers attempted to find a route through a Northwest Passage. The sailors wanted to find a northern trade route between Europe and Asia. The SS Manhattan was the first to sail the entire Northwest Passage in 1969.(images: Parry’s Journal of a Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage… (G650 1819 .P2, http://bit.ly/2utp4Yf) Bern Keating’s The Northwest Passage (G640 .K4, http://bit.ly/2vJeqwB)) -- source link
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