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Captain Nemo (/ ˈ n eɪ m oʊ /; also known as Prince Dakkar) is a character created by the French novelist Jules Verne (1828–1905). Nemo appears in two of Verne's science-fiction books, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870) and The Mysterious Island (1875).
Beside their original appearances in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas and The Mysterious Island, Nautilus and Captain Nemo have appeared in numerous other works.. In the 1954 film adaptation of the first novel and in The Return of Captain Nemo, it is suggested that Nautilus is powered by nuclear energy (discovered by Nemo himself), and that Nemo uses the same energy to destroy Vulcania ...
Captain Nemo (Peter Reneday) 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Submarine Voyage was an attraction at the Magic Kingdom theme park at Walt Disney World from 1971 through 1994. Based on the characters and settings of the 1954 Disney film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea , which was adapted from Jules Verne 's 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the ...
The Captain Nemo origin story series “Nautilus” lives on, with AMC Networks licensing the U.S. and Canadian linear and streaming rights to the live-action series from Disney Entertainment. The ...
Like Captain Nemo, Odysseus wanders the seas in exile (though only for ten years) and similarly grieves the tragic deaths of his crewmen. The novel repeatedly mentions the U.S. Naval Commander Matthew Fontaine Maury , an oceanographer who investigated the winds, seas, and currents, collected samples from the depths, and charted the world's oceans.
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A US naval man, accompanied by Thierry Aronnax, boards the Nautilus and shoots Nemo and another survivor on sight. After a final confrontation between Pierre and his father on the deck of the Nautilus, Nemo, before dying, activates a switch in his mechanical hand causing the Nautilus to explode, destroying the Abraham Lincoln as well.
Captain Nemo and the Underwater City is a 1969 British film directed by James Hill and starring Robert Ryan, Chuck Connors and Nanette Newman. It features the character Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus inspired by Jules Verne's 1870 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. It was written by Pip and Jane Baker. [2]