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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), America, discoverers of. (search)
Arctic exploration.
During almost four hundred years efforts have been made by European navigators to discover a passage for vessels through the Arctic seas to India.
The stories of Marco Polo of the magnificent countries in Eastern Asia and adjacent islands — Cathay and Zipangi, China and Japan--stimulated desires to accomplish such a passage.
The Cabots [John Cabot; Sebastian Cabot (q. v.)] went in the direction of the pole, northwestward, at or near the close of the fifteenth century, and penetrated as far north as 67° 30′, or half-way up to (present) Davis Strait.
The next explorers were the brothers Cortereal, who made three voyages in that direction, 1500-02.
In 1553 Sir Hugh Willoughby set out to find a northwest passage to India, but was driven back from Nova Zembla, and perished on the shore of Lapland.
In 1576-78 Martin Frobisher made three voyages to find a northwest passage into the Pacific Ocean, and discovered the entrance to Hudson Bay.
Between 1585 and 1587
Cathay,
The old name of China, so called by the Venetian traveller Marco Polo, who, in the employ of the Khan of Tartary, visited it early in the thirteenth century.
It was the land Columbus expected to find by sailing westward from Spain.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Columbus , Christopher 1435 -1536 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Garfield , James Abram 1831 -1881 (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Verrazzano , Giovanni da 1508 - (search)