Flashcards in History of Oceanography Deck (45)
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When is migration throughout the Southwestern Pacific thought to have begun?
2500 BC
2
When did the Polynesians successfully reach the Hawaiian Islands?
Probably between 450 to 600 AD
3
Near the equator which direction to the stars appear to travel on a north to south axis?
East to west
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Who began to catalog marine organisms?
Aristotle
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Who in 270 to 190 BC calculated the Earth's circumference to be 40,250 km only 183 km off of the actual circumference?
Eratosthenes
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Who created the first world atlas and established world boundaries?
Ptolemy
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Where did the Vikings reach in 871?
Iceland
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Where did Erik Thorvaldsen discover in 982?
Greenland
9
Who created the 1769 Franklin-Folger chart of the Gulf Stream current?
Benjamin Franklin
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When was the US Naval Hydrographic Office set up?
1830
11
Lieutenant Matthew F. Maury produced the first what in 1847?
Wind and current charts of the North Atlantic
12
Who created the still generally accepted atoll formation theory?
Charles Darwin
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Edward Forbes began a what around the British Isles and Mediterranean and Aegean Seas?
Systematic survey of Marine life
14
Who mistakenly theorized the environment below 550 m was without life?
Edward Forbes
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Who tested theories on ocean current by freezing a vessel and floating with it?
Fridtjof Nansen
16
When was NOAA formed?
1970
17
When was the ten year International Decade of Ocean Exploration?
1970's
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Who was the first European explorer to reach India?
Vasco De Gama
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Where was Vasco de Gama from?
Portugal
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Who led the first expedition that successfully circumnavigated the globe?
Ferdinand Magellan
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Who was the first to round the Cape of Good Hope?
Bartolomeu Dias
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Who was the first European explorer to reach Central America?
Christopher Columbus
23
Where was Columbus from? Who sponsored his exploration?
Genoa, Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain
24
What French explorer led 3 expeditions to Canada in search of the Northwest Passage?
Jacques Cartier
25
Who was the first European to set foot in Florida?
Ponce de Leon
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Who was a Portuguese Prince and patron of explorers.
Henry the Navigator
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Who developed a recognizable map of the Mediterranean region in 450 BCE?
Herodotus
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Who published the first chart of the Gulf Stream? What year?
Benjamin Franklin, 1770
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Who discovered the shipwrecked Titanic, and in what year?
Dr. Robert Ballard, 1985
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