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Pytheas also spoke of the waters around Thule and of those places where land properly speaking no longer exists, nor sea nor air, but a mixture of these things, like a "marine lung", in which it was said that earth and water and all things are in suspension as if this something was a link between all these elements, on which one can neither ...
1 Ocean explorers. 2 See also. 3 References and notes. Toggle the table of contents. List of maritime explorers. 3 languages. Deutsch; ... Zheng He: 1405 ...
Bartolomeu Dias (c.1450–1500) is known as the first European to sail around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, finding the eastern sea route to the Indian Ocean. Christopher Columbus (1451–1506). Famous Genoese explorer, known for "discovering" America in 1492, although he believed the landmass was a part of Asia.
Ægir (anglicised as Aegir; Old Norse 'sea'), Hlér (Old Norse 'sea'), or Gymir (Old Norse less clearly 'sea, engulfer'), is a jötunn and a personification of the sea in Norse mythology. In the Old Norse record, Ægir hosts the gods in his halls and is associated with brewing ale.
The earliest phase of the seaway began in the mid-Cretaceous when an arm of the Arctic Ocean transgressed south over western North America; this formed the Mowry Sea, so named for the Mowry Shale, an organic-rich rock formation. [1] In the south, the Gulf of Mexico was originally an extension of the Tethys Ocean. In time, the southern embayment ...
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What would you do if your sibling was an animal in the afterlife? Author Stuart Pennebaker posts that question in her upcoming novel. PEOPLE has an exclusive first look at Pennebaker’s debut ...
He was the first person to sail solo non-stop through the passage. He began in Lancaster Sound on August 27 and ended 12 days later at Point Barrow, Alaska, on September 9. The trip covered 2,300 nautical miles (4,300 km). It was part of a circumnavigation that started and ended in New Zealand. [80] [81]