Historical Atlas Arctic Book

	Acknowledgments	4
	Introduction	6
	To the Edge of the Arctic	7
	A Passage to Cathay	8
	Lost Colonies and Found Whales	21
	To the Other Ocean	26
	Russian Exploration of the North	34
	The Great Northern Expedition	38
	That Illusive Passage	44
	Cook Probes the Ice	50
	The Arctic by Land	52
	To Sail over the Top of the World	55
	For Glory Not Gold	58
	For Franklin - and Glory	84
	Discoveries in the Russian Arctic	112
	The Path to the Pole	124
	The Northeast Passage Achieved	140
	The Exploration of Greenland	145
	Nansen's Drift	148
	Perry's Push for the Pole	152
	New Land	156
	The Northwest Passage at Last	158
	The Pole Achieved?	160
	Claiming the Arctic	165
	New Land in the Russian Arctic	168
	The Arctic by Air	170
	The Last New Land	183
	The Pole by Many Means	184
	Science, Sonar, and Satellites	186
	Map Catalog	194
	Bibliography	201
	Index	204