Polar Explorers for Kids: Historic Expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic with 21 Activities

Polar Explorers for Kids: Historic Expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic with 21 Activities — page 9
1740 Vitus Bering discovers Alaska across the Bering Strait from Russia 1776 United States Declaration of Independence is signed 1785 Russia settles the Aleutian Islands between mainland Russia and Alaska 1819 William Parry passes Greenland into Lan caster Sound then travels north of the North Magnetic Pole spends the winter near Melville Island 1845 1847 Sir John Franklin reaches the Victoria Strait and maps miles of island coastline he and his entire crew vanish 1861 1865 United States Civil War 1882 1883 First International Polar Year 11 countries participate in studies of the Arctic and Antarctica 1879 Thomas A Edison perfects the electric light bulb 1880s Inupiats discover oil seeping from the ground near the Beaufort Sea 1893 1896 Fridtjof Nansen analyzes polar water cur rents uses them to move his ship to far thest north 1903 Wright Brothers first fly an airplane at Kitty Hawk North Carolina