These early explorers and settlers adapted well to ... they were visiting a land that had been explored, inhabited and developed for millennia. In a way, Alaska existed in the Russian imagination ...

Some of the explorers below lived at the same time and ... 1492 Christopher Columbus travelled to land called 'The Americas'. 1649 Diego Velázquez travelled through Italy and collected art.

Early explorers skimmed the boundaries of Antarctica ... View the paths of glory and despair that revealed this uncharted land to the world. Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Discovery 1901-1904 ...