Geography 8
Across
- 1. a small Spanish or Portuguese sailing vessel of the Middle Ages
- 3. the largest ocean
- 7. a long piece of land that sticks out from a larger area of land into the sea or into a lake
- 9. a journey, especially an arduous or hazardous one, undertaken with extensive planning and a definite objective
- 10. the continent which was discovered the last but one. It was considered to be the unknown Southern Land
- 11. Russian geographer and explorer of Central Asia
- 14. name of a bird and country
- 15. an angular distance on the earth's surface, measured east or west from the Prime Meridian at Greenwich, England, to the meridian passing through a position, expressed in degrees (or hours), minutes, and seconds
- 16. the earth’s largest continent. It consists of two parts of the world
Down
- 2. a member of the indigenous or earliest known population of a region; a native
- 4. A Norwegian explorer who was the first to reach the South Pole
- 5. the second largest traditional sailing vessel still in operation, named in honour of a Russian explorer
- 6. science of map-making
- 8. an elongated lowland between ranges of mountains, hills, or other uplands, often having a river or stream running along the bottom
- 12. a section of the Arctic Ocean north of eastern Russia between the Taymyr Peninsula and the New Siberian Islands. It is icebound most of the year.
- 13. the edge of a sea, the land along lake, or wide river