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... exploration that hardly any of the real exploration of the Arctic Ocean can be credited to the pole seekers . The great exception is Nansen , whose work in the Fram stood alone until the 1930s ; but , although Nansen made a bid to reach ...
... exploration that hardly any of the real exploration of the Arctic Ocean can be credited to the pole seekers . The great exception is Nansen , whose work in the Fram stood alone until the 1930s ; but , although Nansen made a bid to reach ...
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... exploration . Before the 18th century many Arabs but few Europeans had succeeded in penetrating the Arabian Desert , and few authors had written about it . Travel literature written in Arabic concentrated on the routes taken by ...
... exploration . Before the 18th century many Arabs but few Europeans had succeeded in penetrating the Arabian Desert , and few authors had written about it . Travel literature written in Arabic concentrated on the routes taken by ...
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... EXPLORATION Ancient exploration . Advances in archaeological study have strengthened claims by many scholars that various seafaring peoples of the Mediterranean ventured into the open Atlantic before 600 BC and engaged in some transat ...
... EXPLORATION Ancient exploration . Advances in archaeological study have strengthened claims by many scholars that various seafaring peoples of the Mediterranean ventured into the open Atlantic before 600 BC and engaged in some transat ...
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