AQ Answers May 2008

1 b Sir Hillary died this year (2008) after a glorious mountaineering and public service career.

2 d Yes, it was a long trip, and Bering died from exhaustion on Kommander Island east of Kamchatka in 1741.  And yes – a team of Explorers’ Corner paddlers was there in 2003 to visit the man’s grave.

3 b Robert Falcon Scott stepped onto the South Pole in January of 1912, thirty-two days after Roald Amundsen, who had arrived on December 15, 1911.

4 c Clavering saw "a small band of Inuits" north of Scoresbysund in 1823.  And after he showed them the use of white man’s firearms, they all were shocked and ran away – never to be seen again. 

5 b Yes indeed, the Guyana Shield is an “Island”!