Beginning at St. Louis, Missouri, the expedition travelled up the Missouri River to the Great Divide, and then down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean.

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Pike Expedition

The route of Lewis and Clark’s expedition took them up the Missouri River to its headwaters, then on to the Pacific Ocean via the Columbia River, and it may have been influenced by the purported transcontinental journey of Moncacht-Apé by the same route about a century before.

Fort Mandan

Lewis and Clark planned to winter near long-established villages inhabited by large numbers of the Mandan and Hidatsa tribes, north of present-day Bismarck, North Dakota.

Lewis and Clark’s Scientific Discoveries: Plants

• Osage orange. Scientific name: Maclura pomifera – Lewis first described this on March 3, 1804.
• Broad-leaved gum-plant.
• Lance-leaved psoralea.
• Large-flowered clammyweed.
• Missouri milk vetch.
• Few-flowered psoralea; scurfy pea.
• Aromatic aster.
• Silver-leaf psoralea; silvery scurfpea.

The Four Major Rivers Restoration Project is the multi-purpose green growth project on the Han River, Nakdong River, Geum River and Yeongsan River in South Korea. The project was spearheaded by former South Korean president Lee Myung-bak and was declared complete on October 21, 2011.

The belief that a route lay to the far north persisted for several centuries and led to numerous expeditions into the Arctic. Many ended in disaster, including that by Sir John Franklin in 1845. While searching for him the McClure Arctic Expedition discovered the Northwest Passage in 1850.

The Northwest Passage spans roughly 900 miles from the North Atlantic north of Canada’s Baffin Island in the east to the Beaufort Sea north of the U.S. state of Alaska in the west. It’s located entirely within the Arctic Circle, less than 1,200 miles from the North [JR1] .

America has long maintained that the Northwest Passage, which has up to seven different routes, is an international strait through which its commercial and military vessels have the right to pass without seeking Canada’s permission.

Five general cargo ships and five passenger ships made a full transit through the Northwest Passage, a series of routes snaking through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago between the Baffin Bay in the east and the Beaufort Sea in the west.

Reasons to Cruise the Northwest Passage It’s only possible to sail the Northwest Passage during the brief summer of just a few weeks when the ice conditions become more favourable. Hurtigruten’s nautical expertise in extreme polar waters means we’re one of the few companies to offer crossing attempts.

The Northwest Passage route is 7,000 km shorter than the current route through the Panama Canal, and the Northeast Passage route is one-third of the distance of the traditional route through the Suez Canal. Shorter distances mean less travel time, lower fuel consumption and costs.

The passage—which is opening as Arctic sea ice vanishes—would be a much quicker approach to transporting goods, with Chinese reports estimating it to be 30 per cent faster than using the Panama Canal, the traditional route for connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.

The open window may extend to July under SSP585 in 2026–2030. Fig. 5. Accessibility of the Northwest Passage for Open Water ships under SSP245 and SSP585 in September 2021–2050.

The Northwest Passage is a sea route that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. In the past, the Northwest Passage has been virtually impassable because it was covered by thick, year-round sea ice.

The Tuunbaq

Is it based on a true story? Yes. Simmons’s book is a fictionalised account of Captain Sir John Franklin’s expedition on HMS Erebus and HMS Terror to the Arctic in 1845.

After being icebound for more than a year, Erebus and Terror were abandoned in April 1848, by which point Franklin and nearly two dozen others had died. The survivors, now led by Franklin’s second-in-command, Francis Crozier and Erebus’ captain James Fitzjames, set out for the Canadian mainland and disappeared.

Two ships, HMS Terror and HMS Erebus, left England in 1845 in order to search for the North-West Passage – a vital sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Both ships were lost, and all 129 men on board perished. It is the worst disaster in the history of British polar exploration.

In the end, the bodies of more than 30 crewmen from the ships were found on King William Island. Most are still buried there, although two were returned to Britain. Lieutenant John Irving was identified from personal effects and was buried in Dean cemetery, Edinburgh, in 1881.

In September 2014, an expedition led by Parks Canada discovered the wreck of HMS Erebus in an area that had been identified by Inuit. Two years later the wreck of HMS Terror was located. Historical research, Inuit knowledge and the support of many partners made these discoveries possible.

Caulker’s Mate on Terror, Cornelius Hickey is a young petty officer whose rank on the ships should, by any standard, keep him invisible to the officers. But Hickey is not quite what he seems.

In one incident, they were caught in a stormy sea full of fragments of rock-hard ice. The ice smashed against them so violently that their masts shook in a beating that would have destroyed any ordinary vessel. Even more dangerously, in March 1842 the Erebus and Terror came close to destroying each other.

After Franklin’s death in 1847, second-in-command Captain Francis Crozier took over the expedition. For several years Crozier led a courageous battle trying to lead his men to safety. According to legend, Crozier was the last to die – the last man standing.