The Great Explorer

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As he approached the north west coast of America in 1778, Cook made the major discovery of the Hawaiian Islands, the northernmost outliers of Polynesia. The absence of fresh fruit and vegetables brought about scurvy, and led to untold numbers of deaths in the process. Only purchased this as couldn't find a link to the story being read aloud for online learning and the link is to a now private video so I can't even use the planning without the story for the children. If anybody was going to reach the North Pole (at a time when access to electricity was only just becoming widespread, radios were considered high-tech, and Ford’s Model T was 1 year old), this grizzled old sailor would be it.

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He ensured cleanliness and ventilation in the crew's quarters, and insisted on an appropriate diet that included cress, sauerkraut, and a kind of orange extract. together decide which criteria explorers may fit into" but then it doesn't actually include any information within the lesson presentation on what the Dawson's criteria is or how to sort the people. Xuanzang was a remarkable Buddhist scholar whose exploits took him from China to India and back again over an incredible 16 year period. He was the man who led an expeditionary journey into what is today Florida, and became Governor of Puerto Rico.Even if his accounts came from other travelers he met along the way, Polo’s story has inspired countless other adventurers to set off and see the world.

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Learn more about some of the history’s most famous explorers and what they are remembered for today. Living in England at the time, he managed to persuade the British King Henry VII to fund a trip to Asia, heading west- just as Columbus had tried to do four years’ beforehand. De Gama made a direct voyage to India – travelling around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa – arriving in Calicut in 1498.

I have successfully used this unit of literacy to link to our history topic on Explorers from the past including Christopher Columbus. He gained surveying experience in North American waters during the Seven Years War - as Britain and France fought for supremacy in North America - and spent the first years of peace between 1763 and 1767 charting the fog-shrouded coastline of Newfoundland. Cook's first voyage (1768-71) was a collaborative venture under the auspices of the Admiralty and the Royal Society. A severe storm is thought to have crushed the expedition before it ever got started, taking the explorer down with it.