Submarines
The world's first nuclear powered submarine that took 2.5 years to build and was launched by the Navy in 1955.
What is the USS Nautilus?
This word comes from the Greek word that means "near the bear", referring to the Ursa Major star constellation.
What is Arctic?
The Sami of Northern Europe and the Inuit of Greenland, Canada, the USA, and Russian Siberia are examples of this.
What are the indigenous people of the Arctic Circle?
The coldest temperature ever recorded at a weather station on earth.
What is -128 degrees F at the Soviet Vostok station in Antarctica?
What was Germany declaring war on Russia?
The USS Nautilus made this many failed attempts to explore under the polar ice cap from the Atlantic side, eventually having success from the Pacific side.
What are three attempts?
The sun does not rise for at least one day of the year.
What is the geographic definition of the Arctic Circle?
A major part of the Identity of the Inuit People.
What is having a homeland?
Signed by dozens of countries, this Treaty recognized the claims of territory made by seven countries in Antarctica and prohibited further claims to be made. It also states that Antarctica is open for scientific investigation to countries that have signed the treaty.
What is the Antarctic Treaty of 1961?
The Magnetic North Pole is known to move, and scientists discovered that is moves this much every year.
What is an average of 9 miles per year?
When the sub was under the ice, it could not communicate and Magnetic compasses did not work near the pole.
What were concerns about exploring under the polar ice cap?
The ocean depth at the North Pole is this incredible number.
What is 13,410 Feet
The Inuit Homeland, established in 1999 in the north central region of Canada.
What is Nunavut?
This English explorer crossed the Antarctic Circle for the first time in 1773, but he failed to see the continent of Antarctica.
Who was Captain James Cook?
The Arctic Circle is a line of latitude that is a little more than 66 degrees latitude North of this important geographical measure.
In 1957, William Anderson received orders to explore under the polar ice cap from the Atlantic. During the first attempt, the Nautilus traveled this many miles underneath the polar ice cap.
What is 150 miles?
What is the Arctic Council?
Nunavut, or the established Inuit Homeland, is larger than Mexico and about one and a half times the size of this US State.
What is Alaska?
Antarctica is known to be one of the driest one of these in the entire world.
What is a desert?
Modern Inuit practices, such as rifles and snowmobiles have replaced the traditional lifestyle that included these things.
What are harpoons and dogsleds?
On this particular evening, The Nautilus reached the North Pole. A crewman dressed up as Santa Claus using medical cotton and red flag bunting to celebrate the achievement.
What is August 3, 1958
Russian minisubs performed this act on the North Pole seabed in 2007, signifying their interest in the area.
What is place a titanium Russian Flag?
The name of the radar stations established in the Arctic to detect Soviet attacks and alert authorities.
What is the DEW (Distant Early Warning) line?
This explorer lost the race to be the first to the South Pole via water, but assembled a crew to try and cross Antarctica overland, resulting in a wild and crazy polar adventure.
Who was Ernest Shackleton?
The USA claims that this waterway is an international transport route open to all nations, while Canada says that it is an internal waterway which it should control.
What is the Northwest Passage, a waterway that is 500 miles north of the Arctic circle and 1200 miles south of the North Pole.