FASCINATING FACTS ABOUT EXPLORERS AND EXPLORATION
Added on: 1st Jul 2016
IBN FADLAN, AN ARAB EXPLORER, ONCE WITNESSED
A NORSE FUNERAL RITE WHERE A VIKING SLAVE
GIRL HAD SEX WITH ALL THE WARRIORS OF THE
TRIBE. SHE WAS THEN SACRIFICED TO SERVE
THEIR FALLEN CHIEF IN THE NEXT LIFE
DURING AN EXPEDITION THROUGH YELLOWSTONE,
TRUMAN EVERTS WAS SEPARATED FROM HIS GROUP.
HE ENDED UP LOSING HIS HORSE, HIS SUPPLIES,
FALLING INTO A GEYSER, AND GETTING FROSTBITE
BEFORE BEING FOUND SEVERAL MONTHS LATER
BARELY ALIVE
ABEL TASMAN, A DUTCH EXPLORER, DISCOVERED
NEW ZEALAND AND TASMANIA ON HIS FIRST
VOYAGE BUT COMPLETELY MISSED AUSTRALIA.
IT WASN'T UNTIL HIS SECOND VOYAGE THAT HE
REALIZED WHAT HE HAD OVERLOOKED
DURING AN ARCTIC EXPEDITION IN THE 50’S, PETER
FREUCHEN FASHIONED A CHISEL OUT OF HIS FAECES
IN ORDER TO FREE HIMSELF AFTER BEING TRAPPED
IN AN AVALANCHE. HE ALSO AMPUTATED HIS OWN
FROZEN TOES
WHEN SIR WALTER RALEIGH, AN ENGLISH EXPLORER,
CAPTURED THE PORTUGUESE SHIP MADRE DE DEUS,
IT WAS ESTIMATED TO CARRY CARGO WORTH HALF OF
ENGLAND'S NATIONAL TREASURY
DAVID DOUGLAS, A SCOTTISH EXPLORER, DIED IN
HAWAII AFTER FALLING INTO A PIT AND BEING
CRUSHED BY A BULL THAT HAD FALLEN INTO
THE SAME PIT
THE GREEK EXPLORER PYTHEAS WAS THE FIRST
PERSON TO DISCOVER THE POLAR ICE CAPS AND THE
MIDNIGHT SUN. HE ALSO WAS ALSO THE FIRST TO
SUGGEST THAT THE TIDES WERE CAUSED BY THE MOON
IN 1962, MICHAEL SIFFRE, A FRENCH EXPLORER, SPENT
2 MONTHS BURIED BENEATH A GLACIER IN TOTAL
DARKNESS TO SHOW THAT HUMANS HAVE AN INTERNAL
BIOLOGICAL CLOCK
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