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In 1576 Martin Frobisher was the first English explorer to search for the North-West Passage – the seaway linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen was the first man who successfully navigated the North-West Passage by boat, on a voyage that lasted from 1903 to 1906.

In 1854 Robert McClure was credited as the first man to navigate the North-West Passage - although much of his journey was over ice, rather than water.

Samuel Hearne journeyed overland to search for the North-West Passage in 1770. He was the first man to walk from Hudson Bay to the Arctic Ocean.

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The planet Neptune is the furthest planet from the Sun and is orbited by Triton.

For over 300 years explorers risked their lives to search the Arctic for a route between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans

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In 1612, explorer Thomas Button sailed in two ships, Resolution and the Discovery, in search of the North-West Passage.

Thomas James's 1631 voyage to find the North-West Passage became famous thanks to his memoir, The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captain Thomas James (1633).