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Captain James Cook
In 1768, the British government sent navigator
James Cook to explore the Pacific Ocean to
see if there was any land there. Aboard his ship
the Endeavour, Cook found and mapped the
Farmer’s son Cook
joined the merchant coasts of Hawaii, eastern Australia, and New
navy at 17, and the Zealand. He landed at Stingray Bay (later
Royal Navy at 27. renamed Botany Bay) and claimed
AUSTRALIA for Britain. On his second
voyage (1772), Cook became the first
person to cross the Antarctic Circle.

A Shoshoni woman
Did you know?
named Sacajawea
Cook was killed on his
guided Lewis and Clark.
third voyage, after a
dispute with the natives
of Hawaii.

Lewis and Clark
In 1804, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark
captained an expedition into the uncharted
AMERICAN WEST. President Jefferson had asked
them to explore the Louisiana Territory that he
had bought the previous year. It took Lewis
and Clark 18 months to cross the Rocky
Mountains along the Oregon Trail and
reach the Pacific coast.

Roald Amundsen
Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen arrived
at the South Pole on December 14, 1911, after
a race to the bottom of the Earth against British
naval officer Robert Scott. Amundsen’s expedition
was carefully planned and well equipped, using
skis and DOG SLEDS for transportation. Scott
and his men did make it to the pole (a month after
the Norwegians), but they all died on the return
journey. The Amundsen-Scott South Pole research
station is named after these courageous explorers.

Amundsen wore Inuit-
style furs to keep out
the cold and the wet. 91