Geography 8

1. an elongated lowland between ranges of mountains, hills, or other uplands, often having a river or stream running along the bottom
3. a small Spanish or Portuguese sailing vessel of the Middle Ages
7. the largest ocean
11. name of a bird and country
12. the second largest traditional sailing vessel still in operation, named in honour of a Russian explorer
13. a journey, especially an arduous or hazardous one, undertaken with extensive planning and a definite objective
15. A Norwegian explorer who was the first to reach the South Pole
16. the earth’s largest continent. It consists of two parts of the world

2. 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
4. the continent which was discovered the last but one. It was considered to be the unknown Southern Land
5. a member of the indigenous or earliest known population of a region; a native
6. 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.
8. science of map-making
9. Russian geographer and explorer of Central Asia
10. the edge of a sea, the land along lake, or wide river
14. a long piece of land that sticks out from a larger area of land into the sea or into a lake