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Gilbert Islands. Norwegians -- though there be very little record of it -- visited
the most northern parts of eastern North America over a thousand years ago. ...
... fleet before moving southward and eastward to occupy Malaya, the Netherlands Indies,
the Philippines, Wake Island, Guam, the Gilbert Islands, Thailand, and ...
... Tarawa The Central Pacific offensive, a US operation began at the Gilbert Islands.
In November, US task forces moved on Tarawa and Makin islands. ...
... Ballantrae (1889). In June 1889 they set out southwest from Honolulu for
the Gilbert Islands aboard the schooner Equator. From there ...
... Before the end of December, they took British Hong Kong and the Gilbert Islands
(now Kiribati) and Guam and Wake Island (US possessions), and they had invaded ...
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Norwegians -- though there be very little record of it -- visited the most northern parts of eastern North America over a thousand years ago. Indeed, maybe before the Norwegians, the Irish paid a visit; or maybe, in classic times, the Greeks.1 However, what we do know, pretty well for sure, is that the Norsemen first came to Iceland, then as the decades and centuries unfolded they traveled beyond Iceland, to Greenland; and, then again, beyond Greenland to the shores of Baffin Island and Labrador; and then, swinging south, in their frail vessels, down they came along the upper coast of eastern North America.2 Whatever motivated these northern Europeans to keep extending their northern voyages, and exactly when3 they might have made them, are further matters on which we are obliged to speculate. Was it for timber? Was it new lands for splintered clans? Whatever the extent of their explorations and the timing of them, it is believed that any settlements of the Norsemen were but of a temporary kind and that they made no great impact or contribution to the exploration of North America.
Before we deal with such known explorers as Cabot and Cartier, we must acknowledge the thousands of seafaring men, who, in the process of making a living, came to the shores of America, especially those that are washed by the waters that flow over the great fishing banks of the northwestern Atlantic. Discovery, like everything else in life, is an evolutionary process and one voyage by one family was built upon the knowledge gained on a previous voyage of another family member; only slowly did the Europeans become aware of their courses and their objectives that lie to the east over the ocean.4
The earliest explorers, as we have seen, were the unknown and unsung fisherman of western Europe who likely came to the shores of North America in an earlier millennium; these brave seafarers continued their family traditions up to and beyond 1500s. It is with the...
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