Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World.
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Antartica | Continent around the South Pole; a plateu coverd by a great ice cap and mountain peaks.
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| H.M.S. Endurance | A ship in which sailed to the Antartic.
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| Frostbite | To affect or injure by frost or frostbite.
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| Mutiny | Forcible or passive resistance to laweful authority; espacially: concerted revolt against discipline or a superior officer.
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| Evacuation | Something evacuated or discharged.
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| Ice Pack | An expanse of pack ice.
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| Ice Floe | A ussaully large flat free mass of floating sea ice.
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| Navigate | To travel by water.
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| Latitude | Angular distance from some specified circle or plane of reference.
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| Longitude | Long duration
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| Scurvy | A disease caused by lack of vitamin C and characterized by spongy gums loosening of the teeth, and a bleeding into the skin and mucous membranes.
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| Shackleton, Sir Ernest | British polar explorer.
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| Gale | A strong current of air
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| Indispensable | Not subject to being set aside or neglected
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| sextant | an instrument for measuring anguler distance
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| chronemeter | one designed to keep time with great accuracy
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| compass | to get into ones possesion or power
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| skipper | Any of various erraticlly active insects( such as click beetles or a water strider).
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| antiscorbutic | counteracting scurvy
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| expidition | a journey or excursion undertaken for a specific purpose.
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| epilogue | A cuncluding section that rounds out the design of a literary work.
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| tiller | one that tills
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