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Many Explorers did not use a ship. Marco Polo would be but one.
Caravelas (carracks) and naus.
Early explorers explored Earth by ship. When ships sailed into polar climes, the treachery of icebergs coupled with the extreme cold temperatures turned most explorers away from polar exploration.
Depending on the economies and the extent of the expedition, explorers usually arrive at the continent's shores by ship or by chartered airplane.
Polar explorers did.
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they used clipper ships
twas hard and rough and you'd get sick.
courage, mate ship and patriotism
a compass, journal, and a ship.
All polar explorers between about 1899 and 1922 -- the Heroic age of Antarctic Exploration -- traveled to Antarctica by sailing ship.