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Famous Voyages

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A few of the words

MAGELLAN
Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe, departing Spain in 1519, though he died in the Philippines before the journey was complete.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
SEXTANT
A sextant measures the angle between a celestial body and the horizon, giving navigators their latitude with remarkable precision long before GPS.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
GALLEON
The galleon was the workhorse of 16th- and 17th-century ocean trade, a heavy, multi-decked sailing ship that carried both cargo and cannons across the Atlantic and Pacific.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
DRAKE
Sir Francis Drake completed the second circumnavigation of the globe between 1577 and 1580, sailing his flagship the Golden Hind around Cape Horn and back to England.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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About Famous Voyages

Long before satellites, navigators trusted the stars, a sextant, and a compass rose to carry them across unmarked water. Ships like the square-rigged galleons of the Age of Exploration left harbor with charts that ended at the edge of the known world, and came home having redrawn them. Every voyage was a wager: wind, rigging, longitude, and the nerve of the crew against an ocean that owed nothing to human ambition.

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    Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last. The trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
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    Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
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    It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
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