Googler Daniel Russell knows how to find the answers to questions you can't get to with a simple Google query. In his weekly Search Research column, Russell issues a search challenge, then follows up later in the week with his solution-using whatever search technology and methodology fits the bill. This week's challenge: Who was the sailor who discovered an Antarctic island with connections to India?
Here's a tale that I've been trying to track down. Put on your best discoverer's hat and see if you can figure this one out as well.
I was told that not long after the Seven Years War, a Breton privateer discovered islands near Antarctica that he believed were the headlands of a new and previously undiscovered continent. That didn't pan out, but he did find islands that are somehow related to an entire submerged small continent that was formerly covered in pine trees. Strangely enough, that watery sub-continent is in turn somehow connected to the large hills near the city of Rajmahal in India.
WHO found WHAT islands, and WHAT IS their connection with India?
You don't need any particularly tricky search techniques for this, but you do need to be willing to look around and find connections that you might not have thought about.
Search on!
Wednesday Search Challenge (November 30, 2011): Antarctic Islands and India? | SearchReSearch
Daniel M. Russell studies the way people search and research?an anthropologist of search, if you will. You can read more from Russell on his SearchReSearch blog, and stay tuned for his weekly challenges (and answers) here on Lifehacker.
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