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The prehistoric exploration and colonisation of the Pacific (Cambridge UP, 1994). Lincoln, Margarette, ed. Science and exploration in the Pacific: European voyages to the southern oceans in the eighteenth century (Boydell & Brewer, 2001). Lloyd, Christopher. Pacific Horizons: The Exploration of the Pacific Before Captain Cook (Allen and Unwin ...
The USS Vincennes at Disappointment Bay in early 1840. The United States Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842 was an exploring and surveying expedition of the Pacific Ocean and surrounding lands conducted by the United States.
The Northwest Passage is a sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through the Arctic Ocean. Interest kindled in 1564 after Jacques Cartier 's discovery of the mouth of the Saint Lawrence River , Martin Frobisher had formed a resolution to undertake the challenge of forging a trade route from England westward to India.
A part of the Pacific Ocean earmarked for deep-sea mining is home to a surprising variety of life, images from a recent voyage to the Clarion-Clipperton Zone show. ... has issued 17 exploration ...
Italian exploration of the Pacific (1 C, 1 P) M. ... Pages in category "Exploration of the Pacific Ocean" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Tony Romeo, a former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer and CEO of Deep Sea Vision, sold commercial real estate to fund his deep-sea exploration of the Pacific Ocean last year, combing the ocean ...
Exploration of the Pacific coast of America and interior of Nicaragua and El Salvador. Sulphur participated in the First Opium War between 1840 and 1841 and was later used to survey the harbour of Hong Kong in 1841, returning to England in 1842. Captain: Edward Belcher (1799–1877) Physician-naturalist: Richard Brinsley Hinds (1811–1846)
The fleet's remaining three ships completed the journey to the Pacific by 28 November after weeks of fruitlessly searching for the San Antonio. [88] Magellan named the waters the Mar Pacifico, or Pacific Ocean, because of how still and peaceful the sea was, especially compared with the straits. [89] [7]