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在英国人全力寻找从欧洲抵达远东的西北通道时,荷兰人也试图寻找东北通道。十六世纪时,荷兰人开始沿西伯利亚北岸向东航行,并与俄国通商。他们还替荷兰商人在科拉附近设立基地。荷兰船只就从该地缓慢向东行进,1584年抵达新地岛。1596年,威廉·巴伦支率领的探险队获得重大进展,但多变莫测的多冰海域迫使荷兰人放弃了探险。俄罗斯探险家赛约·第日涅夫,在十七世纪探察了西伯利亚的北极海岸,人们这时才知道确实有东北通道存在。即使如此,它似乎不适合大船航行。在将近三百年后的1879年,芬兰探险家尼尔斯·诺登舍尔德乘着一艘坚固的捕鲸船走完了全程。如今,东北通道一直靠俄罗斯破冰船保持航道的畅通。
As the British tried to find the Northwest Passage that arrived from the Europe to the Far East, the Dutch also tried to find the Northeast Passage. In the 16th century, the Dutch began navigating eastward along the northern shore of Siberia and trading with Russia. They also set up bases for Dutch traders near Kola. From there, the Dutch ships slowly eastward and arrived in 1584 in Novaya Zemlya. In 1596, significant progress was made by the expedition led by William Ballentein, but the ever-changing sea of ice forced the Dutch to renounce their exploration. The Russian explorer Cyrrrine Nizhniv, who explored the Arctic coast of Siberia in the seventeenth century, now knew at this time that there was indeed a northeast corridor. Even so, it does not seem suitable for big ship sailing. Nearly three hundred years later, in 1879, Finnish explorer Niels Nordenkölde took the entire whaling ship's life. Today, the Northeast Passage has been to rely on the Russian icebreaker to keep the fairway open.