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Polar Explorers

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A few of the words

AMUNDSEN
Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen led the first confirmed expedition to reach the South Pole, arriving on December 14, 1911, beating Scott's party by five weeks.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
ENDURANCE
The Endurance was Ernest Shackleton's ship, famously crushed by pack ice in the Weddell Sea in 1915. His entire crew survived, a feat of leadership as remarkable as any polar conquest.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
PARKA
The parka's design was borrowed directly from the Inuit, who had perfected cold-weather clothing over centuries of Arctic living. Early polar expeditions that ignored this wisdom paid dearly for it.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
DEPOT
Supply depots, caches of food and fuel buried in the ice, were the lifeline of any polar march. Scott's fatal 1912 return was slowed, in part, by depots that fell just short of where he needed them.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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Polar Explorers word search, free and large-print. Brave the ice, the sled teams, and the frozen silence of the ends of the earth.

About Polar Explorers

The race to the poles was one of history's most punishing tests of human will. Teams hauled sleds across cracking ice sheets, rationed biscuits in temperatures that froze breath before it cleared a scarf, and navigated by compass under skies lit by the aurora. Names like Amundsen, Scott, and Peary became legend, not only for where they reached, but for what they endured to get there.

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