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Christopher Columbus
1451-1506
was born in the town of
Genoa, Italy
didn’t go to school and was self-taught
dreamed of
travelling
learned about Marco Polo who had discovered India & China
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Columbus wanted to get there too, travelling to
the west. He didn’t know about North and South
America.
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He asked the Queen and the King of
Spain to sponsor his plan, promised to bring a
lot of gold, spices and silk. He got the means and went on a journey on August 3, 1492.
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Two months later Christopher Columbus and his crew
landed on the island, now known as the Bahamas.
He thought he had arrived in Asia, but local people didn’t look like the Asian natives.
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He decided that he had arrived in India
and named them Indians. Then Columbus landed on the
unknown continent in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. It was the “New World.”
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Columbus and his ships made four sea expeditions,
opened new islands. His discoveries were of world-historical importance.
Columbus travelled to the “New World” four times. But he didn’t know that he had discovered America. Before his death on May 20, 1506, he was convinced that he had been to Asia.
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ROBERT SCOTT
AND
“TERRA NOVA”
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R. Scott joined the Royal Navy in 1880.
He headed an Antarctic expedition on the ship «Discovery»
(1901-1904).
He had a dream. He wanted to be the first at the South Pole.
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Name: ROBERT FALСON SCOTT
Birthdate: 06.06.1868
Birthplace:
DEVON, ENGLAND
Education: NOVAL CADET PROGRAMME
Occupation: ROYAL NAVY OFFICER
AND
ANTARCTIC BRITTISH EXPLORER
Deathdate: 29.03.1912
Deathplace: ROSS ICE SHELF,
ANTARCTICA
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On June 15, 1910 Scott went to an
Antarctic expedition on the ship «Terra Nova».
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Equipped with motor sledges, ponies, and dogs, he
and eleven others started to the Pole on October
24, 1911.
The motors soon broke down, the ponies died in deep snow.
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The team was not ready for all the
difficulties.
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Finally, on January 18, 1912 Scott and his
men got to the South Pole. There they saw
a Norwegian flag.
Amundsen had got there two weeks before.
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The weather on the return journey was cold
and windy. Food and fuel supplies were low.
The people in Scott’s expedition died on their way back to the camp. Winter killed them.
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On March 9 Scott wrote the final entry
in his diary:«… we are getting weaker ...
It
seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more.»
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On November 12,1912 searchers found the
tent with the
frozen bodies and Scott’s
diaries and records, which
gave a full account of the journey.
.
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There is a simple wooden cross
in the Antarctic.
People put it in the
memory of the brave Englishmen.
“
To strive , to seek, to find,
and not to yield”,
says the inscription on the cross.
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Fabian Gottlieb
von
Bellingshausen
(1778-1852)
“I was born at the
sea, the fish can
not live without water, and I
can
not live without the sea.”
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In 1797 he graduated from the Naval Cadet
Corpus in Kronstadt. Bellingshausen made his first sea travelling
around the world on the ship “Hope” in 1803-1806.
Younger days
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The main goal of the expedition was “scientific
discoveries in the Antarctic Pole”
The Antarctic Pole
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Russian-Turkish War
(1828-1829)
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In 1843 the explorer got the title of
admiral
He died on January 25, 1852
A sea, an island,
a cape, an ice shelf, the first Antarctic station were named after Bellingshausen
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