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Lt Wtlkes:</B> US Exploratory Expedition of 1838-1839                         ^<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1"><B>Past History</B>: Perhaps early man fish viewed the sea he has wondered about it.<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1"><B>Aristotle </B>&amp; his classification of marine forms mistakenly classified a Whale as a fish.<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">His only mistake in classification of species was the Whale.<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1"><B>Homer:</B> 1000 BC Earth was considered a flat disk<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1"><B>Babylonians:</B> land surrounded by Orion and Dawn.<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1"><B>Psalms of Island #14 re;</B> ocean and sublimation<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1"><B>Greeks:</B> Hesiod- (1000 BC)<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1"><B>Isles of the Blessed</B> (Hisperides ect.)<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1"><B>Plato: </B>300-400 BC Lost Island of Atlantis (from Greek stories)<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><U><FONT size="+1"><B>Sub-areas:  </U></P
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></B>GeographicalChemical                      Chemical </P
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>GeologicalBiological                         Biological<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">PhysicalAstronomy                            Astronomy<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1" color="#000000"><B>Heroditus:</U></B> Father of History<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Tells the story of Phoeneuous who sailed around East Africa to West Africa through<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Gilralon &amp; to Home.<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><U><FONT size="+1"><B>Heroditus</U></B> defined the world as a sphere in 500 BC.<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><U><FONT size="+1"><B>Zonal Concepts: </U></P
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></B>Cold<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Temperature<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Torrid<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Coral<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><U><FONT size="+1"><B>Me Chirr</U></B>: In 1853 he completed Passage but partially over Ice<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><U><FONT size="+1"><B>20th Century</U></B>: Amundsen sails from Norway to Rome, Alassen (1903-1906)<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><U><FONT size="+1"><B>North East Passage</U></B> from Sweden to thru Bering<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><U><FONT size="+1"><B>North Pole:</U></B> Nansken, Peary, Parry, Markham<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><U><FONT size="+1"><B>South Pole:</U></B> Cook (1773), Bellingshausen &amp; Weddill (1800's), Ross (1840), Wilkes<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">Expedition (1838-1842), Challenger (1874), Scott, Shacleon,<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><U><FONT size="+1"><B>Scott's Death: </U></P
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><U>Scoresly:</U></B> Deaton is in Greenland Sea/Whales<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><U><FONT size="+1"><B>Ehrenbrg;</U></B> (skeletons of Diatoms in H20 bottom)<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><U><FONT size="+1"><B>Von Humboldtt;</U></B> Organisms of the Sea<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><U><FONT size="+1"><B>Hooker: </U></B>Food web starts with Diatoms<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><U><FONT size="+1"><B>Orstidt: </U></B>blue/green warm sea (Trichodismium)<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><U><FONT size="+1"><B>Dawson: </U></B>Coral Reef<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><U><FONT size="+1"><B>Miller: </U></B>Plankton Net<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><U><FONT size="+1"><B>Brooke: </U></B>Led Maurey to fish map the bottom of the Sea Floor (Bathymitural Map)<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">(1) 4000 FA lines<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><FONT size="+1">(2) Bottom sediment shady<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><U><FONT size="+1"><B>Ben Franklin</U></B> named and utilized the Gulf Stream for Mail Packet Deliveries<FONT size="+1"><br>
<FONT size="+1" color="#000000"><B>Challenger:</U></B> Sir John Murray, Sir Thompson, Used the Miller Net<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><U><FONT size="+1"><B>Natural History Professors: </U></B>Thompson frustrated M.D &amp; Murray<FONT size="+1"> </P
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><U><FONT size="+1"><B>Thompson:</U></B> Porcupem Voyage (1869) &amp; Lightening Voyage (1868)<FONT size="+1">