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    Magellan The Great Conquer by: Arado‚ Reñel Joseph T. Magellan‚ as we all know is one of the greatest traveler of mankind he lead the first expedition to the pacific to find the spice island which is located at Jakarta‚ Indonesia. But first let us take a look on the life of Magellan before he becomes the greatest traveler. Magellan was born either in the city of Porto or in Sabrosa‚ circa 1480. Since childhood Magellan has been studying

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    AIP (Air Independent Propulsion) systems and solar cells technology will change the future of the AUV. In the Asia-Pacific region specifically‚ the BRIC countries will prove to be the emerging markets for the UUV with their activities in the scientific research‚ and oil and gas sectors. The growth in North America and Europe will be sluggish compared to Latin American‚ Asia-Pacific‚ and the Africa. APAC countries will focus on growth‚ try to create obvious market space‚ and direct their regions economies

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    The world ocean‚ which reaches an average depth of 4‚000 meters‚ it is accountable for 70% of the Earth’s total surface. The world ocean is composed of 5 major oceans‚ which are the Pacific Ocean‚ Atlantic Ocean‚ Artic Ocean‚ Southern Ocean‚ and Indian Ocean. Oceanic ridges and their associated structures make up 22.1% of the earth’s solid surface and ocean basin floors make up 29.8%. An oceanic ridge is a mountainous chain of young basaltic rock at the active spreading center of an ocean. The mid-Atlantic

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    Tsunami vs Hurricane

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    wave. They should await word that it is safe to return home. Tsunamis generally occur in the Pacific Ocean‚ a geologically active area where structural deformation shifts make volcanoes and earthquakes common. Hurricanes can occur anywhere‚ and they come under different names in different parts of the world. In the Atlantic or the Caribbean‚ it would be called storms and typhoons in the western Pacific Ocean‚ and cyclones over the Indian Ocean. The best way to deal with a hurricane is an accurate

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    CALLED TAHITI In this short text “The Moon and Sixpence” ‚ we can find several descriptions of the Tahiti ‚ a south pacific island which is famous for its magic beauty‚ friendly people and for this reason people around the world enjoy to visit it. This story was narrated and written by the novelist William Somerset Maugham in one of his many long trips to the Pacific Island . This text is about a narrator who visited the Tahiti Island due to a hazard journey. In this island it was living

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    Our changing world

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    should either stop selling plastic water bottles or at least make a law that you have to recycle them haven’t you ever been irked buy crushed water bottles laying all over the ground or have you ever heard of the pacific trash vortex it’s a giant heap of litter in the middle of the pacific ocean and its estimated to be about twice the size of Texas. Think about it if that stuff had been recycled first of all it wouldn’t be there and second thousands of marine creatures’ lives would be saved. Sure

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    Cascadian Tsunami

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    Atwater‚ Brian. Accessed February 27‚ 2014 Cascadia Region Earthquake Workgroup‚ Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquakes: A Magnitude 9.0 Earthquake Scenario‚ 2005. http://www.crew.org/sites/default/files/CREWCascadiaFinal.pdf. Accessed February 22‚ 2014 Pacific Northwest Seismic Network‚ Cascadia Subduction Zone‚ 2013. http://www.pnsn.org/outreach/earthquakesources/csz. Accessed February 20‚ 2014 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‚ Tsunami‚ 1998. http://www.tsunami.noaa.gov/tsunami_story.html

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    Ferdinand Magellan

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    Ferdinand Magellan was born circa 1480 in Sabrosa‚ Portugal. His father was Dom Ruy Magellan‚ a nobleman and sheriff. He was married to Donha Alda De Mesquite. He was born Fernão de Magalhães‚ but changed it later. Ferdinand Magellan had 2 siblings: a sister named Isabel and a brother named Diago De Souse. <br> <br>This aspiring explorer and adventurer spent his childhood as a page at the Portuguese court doing errands and chores. He also went to school at a monastery. When he was only 10 years

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    Göbeklitepe to the World Ocean Coastlines by sea and land. Addendum: JAPAN & the PACIFIC Figure J.1: The Kitsune Foxes of Göbeklitepe

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    Hope for Melal

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    Hope for Melal The book “Melal “by Robert Barclay takes place in 1981 in The Marshall Islands of the South Pacific. The people known as the Marshallese are the natives to these islands. Overtime other cultures began to settle on these islands also‚ such as the Spanish‚ Japanese‚ and Americans. Out of these three cultures the Americans were the most domineering and devastating to the Marshallese people. The Americans took over the Marshallese native land and forced all of them to live on one island

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