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= **The Arctic Explorations and Explorers**  =

The Northwest Passage
During the 16th century, the Europeans were determined to find a nothern sea route to Asia and the Far East. Although many explorers went on this nothern voyage, none succeded. Not all was lost for the Europeans, while searching they learned a great deal, created maps of northern Canada and also came in contact with the native Inuit people. No one found the **Northwest Passage** from the south until the Norwegian explorer //Roald Amundsen// sailed though the Bering strait in 1906.



Explorers
1533 - English explorer //Hugh Willoughby// reaches Novaya Zemlya in hopes of discovering the Northeast Passage 1576 - //Sir Martin Frobisher// sails to Baffin Island in search of the Northeast Passage 1587 - English explorer //John Davis// explores the coast of Greenland and Baffin Island 1596 to 1597 - //Willem Barents// and his crew are the first Europeans to survive a Arctic winter 1607 to 1610 - //Heny Hudson's// first two voyages take him to Spitsbergen. His third takes him to what is now known as Hudson's Bay 1631 to 1632 - English explorer //Thomas James// sails to southern Hudson Bay, what is now know as James Bay 1778 - English explorer //James Cook// sails through the Bering Strait from the Pacific to the Argtic Ocean



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//The video above shows what explorers like Henry Hudson would have seen as he was exploring.//