INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT EXPLORERS AND EXPLORATION

IN 1503 COLUMBUS GOT STRANDED IN JAMAICA

WHILE ON HIS WAY TO THE NEW WORLD. KNOWING

THAT A LUNAR ECLIPSE WAS NEAR, HE TOLD THE

LOCALS THAT IF THEY DIDN'T TAKE CARE OF HIS

CREW THE MOON WOULD DISAPPEAR

ZHENG A CHINESE ADMIRAL, DIPLOMAT, AND EXPLORER

WHO ROSE TO GREAT PROMINENCE DURING THE

1300’S IN SPITE OF BEING CASTRATED AND ENSLAVED

EARLIER IN HIS LIFE

THE FAMOUS BRITISH EXPLORER DAVID LIVINGSTONE

ONCE HAD ALL HIS SUPPLIES STOLEN WHILE HE WAS

IN AFRICA. IN ORDER TO GET FOOD FROM THE

NATIVES HE HAD TO EAT HIS MEALS IN A ROPED

OFF ENCLOSURE WHICH SERVED AS ENTERTAINMENT

FOR THE LOCALS

IN 1951, DURING THE EXPLORER'S CLUB ANNUAL

DINNER, A 250,000 YEAR OLD PIECE OF WOOLLY

MAMMOTH MEAT WAS SERVED

IN 1911, BRITISH EXPLORER GEORGE MURRAY LEVICK

OBSERVED NECROPHILIA IN PENGUINS AROUND

ANTARCTICA. HIS FINDINGS WEREN'T PUBLISHED UNTIL

2012 BECAUSE THEY WERE DEEMED TOO

INDECENT AT THE TIME

MUCH TO THEIR SURPRISE, THE FIRST PILGRIMS AT

THE PLYMOUTH COLONY WERE GREETED BY A NATIVE

AMERICAN SPEAKING ENGLISH (HIS NAME WAS SAMOSET

AND HAD BEGUN TO LEARN ENGLISH FROM FISHERMEN

ALONG THE COAST)

WHEN JAMES COOK FIRST ARRIVED IN HAWAII THE

LOCALS THOUGHT HE WAS A GOD. WHEN HE CAME

BACK, HOWEVER, HIS BOATS HAD BEEN BATTERED BY

A STORM, WHICH APPARENTLY OFFENDED THE NATIVES.

THEY SUBSEQUENTLY KILLED HIM AND ATE HIM

LAWRENCE OATES, AN ANTARCTIC EXPLORER,

GOT GANGRENE AND FROSTBITE DURING AN

EXPEDITION. KNOWING THAT HIS MATES' LIVES

WOULD BE IN DANGER, HE WALKED OUT INTO

THE COLD, NEVER TO RETURN

ADMIRALTY ISLAND IN ALASKA IS HALF THE SIZE OF

YELLOWSTONE PARK BUT WITH TWICE THE NUMBER

OF GRIZZLY BEARS. EARLY RUSSIAN EXPLORERS

NAMED THE ISLAND OSTROV KUTSNOI, WHICH

TRANSLATES TO "FEAR ISLAND".