Jovial Monk wrote on May 24
th, 2017 at 5:51pm:
Lovely fantasy there, Lees.
Does your ignorance know no bounds?
"Sailing from Tromsø, Norway, aboard the steam vessel Vega on July 21, 1878, he reached Cape Chelyushkin, Siberia, roughly the midpoint of his journey, on August 19. From the end of September until July 18, 1879, the ship was frozen in near the Bering Strait. Resuming its course, the Vega reached Port Clarence, Alaska, on July 22 and returned to Europe by way of Canton (China), Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), and the Suez Canal."
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adolf-Erik-Baron-Nordenskiold"The Portuguese navigator David Melgueiro – according to some sources – would have made the first Northeast Passage complete crossing, from east to west, in 1660. The first confirmed complete passage, from west to east, was made by the Finnish-Swedish explorer Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, in 1878."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Passage