[DOC] [TLE] Jeopary Questions page 619 - "SOUTH" - TriviaBistro.com [PAR] "SOUTH": State where gold was found in 1874 when Custer led expedition to ... "
NORTH": 1st to sail it, Roald Amundsen found this "shortcut" a difficult 3-year trip. [DOC] [TLE] Break On Through | Outside Online [PAR] Jan 2, 2004 ... In 1497, explorer John Cabot sailed as far as the southeastern ... By the mid-
1800s, the quest for a shipping shortcut had crystallized .... IN 1903, THE FIRST 
YEAR of what would be a three-year crossing of the Northwest Passage, Roald 
Amundsen wrote that ice conditions "had been unusually favorable. [DOC] [TLE] Explorers for Kids: Christopher Columbus - Ducksters [PAR] Columbus spent years trying to convince someone to pay for his voyage. He first 
tried to get King John II of Portugal to pay for his journey, but the King was not ... 
He set sail on August 3, 1492 with three ships named the Nina, the Pinta, and ... 
He died thinking he had discovered a shortcut to Asia across the Atlantic Ocean. [DOC] [TLE] Searchers find 2nd ship from doomed British expedition | Fox News [PAR] Sep 13, 2016 ... The Terror was discovered in 26 yards of water in Terror Bay, a small ... to find the 
Northwest Passage, the long-sought shortcut to Asia that ... until Roald 
Amundsen of Norway completed his trip in 1903-06. .... stayed stuck in ice for 
three years, when the ship was abandoned. ... How did the ship sail there? [DOC] [TLE] Northwest Passage facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com ... [PAR] During the same period, the idea of reaching China and India by sailing over the 
... of the passage in the mid-1800s only revealed how difficult its transit would be, 
... The first commercial ship to successfully transit the Northwest Passage was the 
... first accomplished (19036) by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. [DOC] [TLE] NOVA | Transcripts | Arctic Passage | PBS [PAR] Feb 28, 2006 ... Their mission: to be the first to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific through .... 
NARRATOR: Today, he's making the long and difficult trip to the place ..... Three 
years into their Arctic journey, scurvy was ravaging the men. ..... ROALD 
AMUNDSEN: "When the first daylight came he discovered I was frozen in. [DOC] [TLE] Franklin's lost expedition - Wikipedia [PAR] Franklin's lost expedition was a British voyage of Arctic exploration led by 
Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two ships, HMS 
Erebus and HMS Terror. A Royal Navy officer and experienced explorer, Franklin 
had served on three ... Finally, two years later, the HMS Terror wreck was found 
south of King... [DOC] [TLE] History / Wonderville [PAR] We also know that Viking Leif Ericson landed in America about 500 years ... On 
his first voyage into the Atlantic Ocean in 1476, his ship was attacked by ... This is 
why many people disagreed with Columbus's idea to sail in a different ... He died 
thinking that he actually had discovered a shortcut to Asia. ... Roald Amundsen. [DOC] [TLE] Norwest Passage Expedition | Road Scholar [PAR] Set sail for the storied Northwest Passage, the explorers' Holy Grail that wasn't 
discovered until 1906, and witness unbelievable arctic environments on this ... 
though, until the legendary adventurer Roald Amundsen did it between 1903 and 
... the passage as a shipping shortcut may become reality due to climate change. [DOC] [TLE] An Arctic Adventure with Jimmy Cornell - Sail Magazine [PAR] Sep 29, 2015 ... Since Roald Amundsen's successful transit of the Northwest Passage ... But as I 
found out myself last summer, however well prepared you may be, ... few hours, 
this fortuitous shortcut has opened late in the season in recent years. ... passing 
through an area between 3/10 and 5/10 is difficult but may still be... [DOC] [TLE] To Boldly Go : The Colonial Williamsburg Official History ... [PAR] Interpreter Gerald Underdown as Cook, who sailed the Pacific from the Arctic ... 
On his first voyage, in 1768, he took HMS Endeavour to Tahiti to observe the ...

Question: 1st to sail it, Roald Amundsen found this “shortcut” a difficult 3-year trip
Answer: Northwest Passage