A host of Elizabeth explorers explored the world in the late Elizabethan reign. Did they achieve anything, or were there efforts a false start?
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A host of Elizabeth explorers explored the world in the late Elizabethan reign. Did they achieve anything, or were there efforts a false start?
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Oh, there’s a Northwest Passage, right enough. There wasn’t during Elizabeth’s reign, though. Global warming has changed many things, regrettably.
Oh, in case anyone is wondering: John Lok of this episode would appear to be great-great-great-great grandfather of the person you probably first thought of when you heard the name.
Thank you John. I think wonder if I’d be pulled up on the northwest passage thing. Even now it’s not a commercial shipping route is it?
I don’t think it’s being regularly used, but it has been used for shipping. As I recall, a Chinese ship that wouldn’t fit in the locks through the Panama Canal went that way. There was a decent bit of “global warming is real, yo” in the news areas I tend to read at the time, although it had been predicted for ages.
There may have been others, I’m not sure who tracks something like this.
Fascinating and very enjoyable. Thank you, David, for your informative, wry recounting.
Thank you Judy!