Across
- 4. an ocean
- 6. Marco Polo travelled to this country
- 8. a large boat or a ship
- 10. the ancient Egyptian sun god, the supreme deity
- 11. an island in the northern Atlantic Ocean off northeast Canada. It is the largest island in the world and lies mostly within the Arctic Circle
- 12. a medieval instrument that was once used to determine the altitude of the sun or other celestial bodies
Down
- 1. an Italian navigator and explorer in the service of Spain, who discovered the New World
- 2. a Portuguese navigator, seeking a western route to Asia; one of his ships returned to Spain (1522), completing the first circumnavigation of the globe
- 3. one of a seafaring Scandinavian people who raided the coasts of northern and western Europe from the 8 through 10 century
- 5. a long piece of land that sticks out from a larger area of land into the sea or into a lake
- 7. the largest of the continents
- 9. a peak in the Himalayas: the highest mountain in the world