Farthest North describes the most northerly latitude reached by explorers, before the first successful expedition to the North Pole rendered the expression...
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century or later. Attempts to reach the North Pole began in the late 19th century, with the record for "Farthest North" being surpassed on numerous occasions...
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Pole of inaccessibility (redirect from Farthest point inland)
In geography, a pole of inaccessibility is the farthest (or most difficult to reach) location in a given landmass, sea, or other topographical feature...
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Western North America is the western edge of the North American continent that borders the Pacific Ocean. It consists of Alaska at the farthest north, down...
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Scouting in Alaska (redirect from Farthest North Girl Scout Council)
Camp. As of October 2009 two Girl Scout councils exist in Alaska. The Farthest North Girl Scout Council serves the largest geographical area of any of the...
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moderately sized town, being a 10.2 km walk from farthest east to west and same from farthest north to south, and a rough area of 52 mkm (Megameter) or...
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The north magnetic pole, also known as the magnetic north pole, is a point on the surface of Earth's Northern Hemisphere at which the planet's magnetic...
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William Edward Parry (category English explorers of North America)
the earliest expeditions to the North Pole. He reached 82° 45' N, setting a record for human exploration Farthest North that stood for nearly five decades...
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Robert Peary (redirect from Peary North Pole expedition)
within a few months. On his 1898–1902 expedition, Peary set a new "Farthest North" record by reaching Greenland's northernmost point, Cape Morris Jesup...
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Willem Barentsz discovers Spitsbergen and registered the first recorded Farthest North 1605–1607: Danish-Norwegian king, Christian IV of Denmark, sends three...
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Farthest South refers to the most southerly latitudes reached by explorers before the first successful expedition to the South Pole in 1911. Significant...
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Nansen, Fridtjof (1897). Farthest North, Volume I. London: Archibald Constable & Co. Nansen, Fridtjof (1897). Farthest North, Volume II. London: Archibald...
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visitor to observe hundreds of the macaques. Jigokudani is not the farthest north that monkeys live. The Shimokita Peninsula is at the northern part of...
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with a prey-stalking predator, the polar bear. Season 11 is filmed the farthest north the show has ever been, 125 miles into the Arctic Circle on the coast...
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Location: Farthest east point: 0° 58' 27,80" East longitude. Farthest west point: 0° 41' 30,24" East longitude. Farthest north point: 42° 37' 58,88" North latitude...
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made for the pole. They did not reach it, but they achieved a record Farthest North latitude of 86°13.6′N before a long retreat over ice and water to reach...
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Appalachian Mountains (category Mountain ranges of North Carolina)
species is the black spruce (Picea mariana), which extends farthest north of any conifer in North America, is found at high elevations in the northern Appalachians...
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tells us that Thule, the most northerly of the Britannic Islands, is farthest north, and that there the circle of the summer tropic is the same as the Arctic...
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The Norse exploration of North America began in the late 10th century, when Norsemen explored areas of the North Atlantic colonizing Greenland and creating...
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Northwest Passage (redirect from North-West Passage)
and Pacific oceans through the Arctic Ocean, along the northern coast of North America via waterways through the Arctic Archipelago of Canada. The eastern...
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hull developed slow leaks. After ten days, Nautilus reached 82°N, the farthest north any vessel had reached under its own power, and preparations began to...
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viewed from such a position, it is also the farthest north of Neptune's path. Pluto's orbit passes about 8 AU north of that of Neptune, preventing a collision...
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coordinates) The extreme points of Japan include the coordinates that are the farthest north, south, east and west in Japan, and the ones that are at the highest...
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Railway station in Russia, world's farthest north...
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Uerdingen line (category North Rhine-Westphalia)
(south of the line). This sound shift is the one that progressed the farthest north among the consonant shifts that characterize High German and Middle...
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Northern Canada (redirect from The Far North)
Northern Canada (French: Nord du Canada), colloquially the North or the Territories, is the vast northernmost region of Canada, variously defined by geography...
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of the peoples in the farthest north and the perils to be encountered on his homeward march after slaying Geryon in the farthest west. Follow this straight...
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Peary returned from his latest unsuccessful quest for the North Pole, claiming a new Farthest North of 87° 6′—a record disputed by later historians. He immediately...
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line of the ground advance, being relieved by the British XXX Corps. Farthest north, the British 1st Airborne Division landed at Arnhem to capture bridges...
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On Christmas 2020, Polar Star reached 72 degrees 11 minutes north, the farthest north any US government surface vessel has reached in the winter. The...
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