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276
Eratosthenes
He was the first person to use the word "geography" and invented the discipline of geography as we understand it. -
325
pytheas
He made a voyage of exploration to northwestern Europe at about 325 BC. He travelled around and visited a considerable part of Great Britain. -
Jan 1, 1450
Prince Henry
Established a marine observatory and knew how to get around the tip of Africa. -
Jan 1, 1486
Bartholomeu Dias
The cape of good was finally rounded. -
Jan 1, 1498
Vaso de gama
Found new route to africa from india -
Jan 1, 1513
Magellon
circumnavigated the globe -
Benjamin Franklin
Discovering suface currents and therefor published the first map of the gulf stream. -
James cook
Discovered Hawaiian group and determined the outline of the worlds largest ocean and the first person known to cross the atlantic circle. -
Challenger Expedition
messured a map of the of ocean -
Charles Darwin
Started to write papers on natural selection and origin of the species -
Matthew fontaine
established uniform methods of making nautical and meterolrological observations at sea. -
sonar
is a technique that uses sound propagation to navigate, communicate with or detect other vessels. -
bathysphere
is a spherical deep-sea submersible which is unpowered and is lowered into the ocean on a cable. -
Eric the red
firt nigga to discover Greenland -
ptolemy
Ptolemy was the author of several scientific treatises.
