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Main Accomplishment: used navigation skills that allowed them to travel great distances between islands
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Main Accomplishment: first accomplished western navigators, established trade route regions
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Main Accomplishment: recognized that water evaporated from the earth and fell again as rain, classified and categorized many near shore organisms, recognized that gills are the breathing apparatus for fish -
Main Accomplishment: traveled from Greece north all the way to Iceland or Norway, recognized that the moon was the source of tides
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Main Accomplishment: calculated the earth's circumference, determined the longitude and latitude of the known earth, mapped the nile river and two tributaries and determined that its source was lakes
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Main Accomplishment: discovered North America
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Main Accomplishment: America was named after him
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Main Accomplishment: rediscovered the "new world" in 1492 -
Main Accomplishment: first expedition to sail around the world, first circumnavigation of globe
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Main Accomplishment: chosen by Queen Elizabeth for something, discovered san francisco bay
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Main Accomplishment: first to accurately map the world and prepare ocean charts including tides, winds, water, temperature -
Main Accomplishment: theory of evolution, explained the formation of Atolls, studied barnacles in great detail -
Main Accomplishment: charted a portion of antarctica, the pacific northwest, 280 islands in the south pacific
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Main Accomplishment: discovered life varied by ocean depth
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Main Accomplishment: contributed to the understanding of the vast oceans and their life forms