by David Tollen | Jan 16, 2020 | The Early Modern Age, Geography
This week in history, the United Kingdom’s Captain James Cook celebrated two accomplishments. In 1773, he led the first known expedition to sail south of the Antarctic Circle. Cook and his crew were trying to find an imagined continent called Terra Australis – or to...
by David Tollen | Sep 11, 2011 | The Neolithic & Latter-Day Prehistory, Australia, the Islands, & Further Africa before the Modern Age
Polynesians settled Hawaii during the 400’s C.E. They came by double-hulled sailing canoe from the Marquesas Islands in the South Pacific. The trip probably took months, and survival required substantial supplies of food and fresh water. Even then death loomed...
