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B. Operation Breakthrough was a $1 million international effort to free three gray whales trapped in the pack ice of the Beaufort Sea near Point Barrow, Alaska. The area was first occupied about 1,000 years ago by ancestors of the Inupiat people who still hunt and fish the off the point, which is only 1,291 miles from the North Pole.
D. Hudson was trying to find a northerly sea route from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast of China. After being trapped by ice and spending a winter on shore, he wanted to continue his quest. However, much of his crew wanted to return home and mutinied. Hudson, his teen-aged son and nine crewmen were cast adrift in a small boat in the bay, and they were never seen again.
A. The stormy seas at southern end of South America were the quickest way to the Pacific until the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914. Ships going by way of Cape Hope in southern Africa had to cross the Indian Ocean to get to the Pacific. Cape Fear is on the cost of North Carolina, and Cape Fligely is the northernmost point of Europe, about 566 miles from the North Pole.
B. From its headquarters on Hudson Bay, the company controlled the fur trade of most of British North America for several centuries. Today, it runs retails stores throughout Canada and the United States.