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Roald Amundsen Reaches the Northwest Passage

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VESSEL
Amundsen's vessel, the Gjøa, measured just 47 tons, tiny for an Arctic crossing, but her shallow draft let her slip through channels that larger ships could never have survived.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
LATITUDE
Navigating by latitude and longitude through the Arctic required painstaking celestial observations; Amundsen also used the journey to locate the magnetic North Pole, fixing its position in 1903.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
PASSAGE
The Northwest Passage stretches roughly 900 miles through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, a route that had claimed dozens of earlier expeditions, including the famous lost Franklin Expedition of 1845.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
NORWAY
Amundsen was born in Borge, Norway, in 1872, and Norway's seafaring tradition ran deep in him; completing the Passage was a triumph for a nation that had only just regained full independence in 1905.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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About Roald Amundsen Reaches the Northwest Passage

On September 13, 1906, Roald Amundsen sailed the tiny sloop Gjøa into Herschel Island harbor off the Yukon coast, completing the first successful navigation of the Northwest Passage, the legendary Arctic sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific that European explorers had hunted for more than four centuries. Amundsen and his six-man crew had left Oslo in June 1903, threading through shifting ice, shallow channels, and frozen fjords, wintering twice on King William Island before the final push west. The achievement transformed maps of the far north and cemented Amundsen's reputation as one of history's greatest polar navigators.

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