In a matter of hours, Frank Wolf and David Berrisford will leave Prince Rupert, B.C. and start kayaking toward and around ...

He came very close to the Alaskan coast, but bad weather prevented him ... and his expedition produced maps that set the navigation standard for the next century. The Russian Empress Catherine ...

If genuine, the maps would show that Polo recorded the shape of the Alaskan coast—and the strait separating it from Asia—four centuries before Vitus Bering, the Danish explorer long considered ...