The story of a famous explorer

1: Kyle Polo,1September 965 1254 was born in Kaul La Chu Island, Croatia. He is a Venetian traveler and businessman, and he wrote the famous Travels of Marco Polo.

Story: Chinese and foreign history books record that glasses originated in China, which is an ancient cultural, medical and technical heritage of China. At that time, there was an Italian named Kyle Bohr 6, who lived in China for seventeen years and worked for the court of the Yuan Dynasty, and traveled all over China. At that time, he was very interested when he saw someone wearing glasses in the court of the Yuan Dynasty. After he returned to China, he spread his glasses to the west, so the earliest place to make glasses in the west was Venice, Kelpolo's hometown.

2. David Livingston (18 13- 1873) is a Scottish doctor and missionary. He devoted his life to exploring Central Africa. 1840, his first expedition to Africa, including 1849 crossing kalahari desert.

Story: Livingstone returned to the African continent on 1864. When he went to the interior of Africa, he didn't hear from the explorer. For six years, Livingstone lost contact with the outside world. There were all kinds of rumors circulating at that time.

The owner of the American New York Herald gave it to his subordinate reporter Henry.

Stanley gave an almost impossible task to lead an expedition to the African continent to find Livingstone. After nearly eight months' journey, Stanley's expedition team approached the small village of Ujiji on the lake Tanganyika on18710. There, they found Livingstone.

When they met, the phrase "You are Dr. Livingstone, if I am not mistaken?" Our greetings are very famous. This famous saying is recorded in the Encyclopedia Britannica and the Oxford National Biography Dictionary. This sentence is so famous because it makes people feel the humorous essence of half-joking: Dr. Livingstone is the only white person who has seen within hundreds of miles of Fiona Fang. Stanley also explained in the book that he said this sentence in the first sentence at that time because the scene at that time was a bit embarrassing and he finally found the person he was looking for. He wants to hug, but he is afraid to do so because of his pride.

3. Ferdinand Magellan (1480-15265438+April 27th), an explorer, navigator, colonist and Portuguese, once explored for the Spanish government.

Story: After more than 65,438+000 days of sailing, Magellan never felt so relaxed, as if God had helped him a lot. He gave the South China Sea an auspicious name, called the Pacific Ocean.

In this vast Pacific Ocean, we can't see land and islands, so food has become the most critical issue. In 100 days and nights, they didn't eat any fresh food, only dry bread to satisfy their hunger. Later, they even ate dry bread, and they could only eat some dry bread crumbs with bugs, which smelled like rat urine. The fresh water in the cabin is getting shallower and shallower, and finally you can only drink turbid yellow water, and there is a bad smell. In order to survive, even the cowhide built in the yard of the ship is eaten as food. Cowhide is as hard as stone. Soak in seawater for four or five days, and then bake on charcoal fire for a long time before eating.

4. Vitus Bering (168 1 August 25th, 2008-174 1 February, 2008 19) was born in Holsens, Denmark, and was an explorer during the vice admiral period in Russia. Bering Strait, Bering Sea, Bering Island and Bering Isthmus are all named after him.

Story: 1728, Bering commanded the expedition ship "San Gabriel" designed and manufactured by the expedition to leave the port and push northward along the coast of kamchatka peninsula. One day in August, the ship San Gabriel sailed in the wind, rain and fog and came to the sea near the easternmost tip of the Asian continent. Looking eastward from here, I saw the vast sea and Wang Yang, which convinced Bering that North America and Asia are really separated by a water.

Bering didn't see the opposite North America because of the fog that day. So it doesn't know that the expedition is located in a narrow strait. The narrowest part of this strait is only 35 kilometers. If the weather is fine, the two sides can face each other from a distance. As a result, America is not close at hand.

Roald Amundsen (1July 872,1June 8), a Norwegian polar explorer, was the first person to reach the South Pole.

19 10 On August 9th, Amundsen set sail from Norway on the research ship "Ferram". On the way, he learned that the British Antarctic expedition also aimed at the South Pole, and Amundsen was determined to win the title of the first Antarctic expedition.

After more than four months of hard sailing, the "Ferram" crossed the Antarctic Circle, entered the ice floe area, and arrived at Whale Bay, the starting base for climbing the Antarctic, in 19 1 1 year. Amundsen led five explorers to set off from the base and began a arduous expedition to the South Pole. Results In less than two months, we successfully reached the South Pole at1911112+05.

Amundsen's excitement is beyond words. They cheered and hugged each other to celebrate the victory and planted a Norwegian flag in the South Pole. They set up a camp called "polar house" in the South Pole, observed the sun for 24 hours in a row and calculated the exact location of the South Pole. He left two letters for Scott and King Haakon of Norway in the tent. Amundsen's intention is that in case of misfortune on his way back, Scott can report the good news of their successful arrival at the South Pole to the King of Norway.

Amundsen spent three days in the Antarctic. 19112 18 They took two sledges and18 dogs on their way back to the base of Whale Bay. Amundsen's great trip to the South Pole caused a sensation all over the world, and people cheered for his achievements.