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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 ...
Timor, Moluccas (Australasia - Pacific Ocean) 1512–1513 António de Abreu and Francisco Serrão: Circumnavigation of the globe. Connection from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean (Americas to Asia). 1519–1522 Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastián Elcano: Mexico: 1519–1521 Hernán Cortés: Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia and east of the Inca ...
The Clipperton fracture zone is the southernmost of the north east Pacific Ocean lineations. It begins east-northeast of the Line Islands and ends in the Middle America Trench off the coast of Central America, [4] [11] [6] forming a rough line on the same latitude as Kiribati and Clipperton Island, from which it gets its name.
Pages in category "Pacific expeditions" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. ... Russian exploration of the Pacific Northwest;
22. Further exploration of the area was a hike inland. [12] 23. The area is suitable to the requirements of careening and ship repair. [13] [14] 24. There is abundant supply of stone for the fort's "bulwarks". [15] 25. The site is in the area of the first finding of the Plate of Brass. [16] [17] 26.
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)
Transpacific crossings are voyages of passengers and cargo across the Pacific Ocean between Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. Transpacific voyages frequently cross the International Date Line. The first recorded crossing of the Pacific was a Spanish expedition led by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan of 1521.