southern continent‚ Terra Australis‚ of which Africa was thought to be a part. He entered the South Pacific‚ where he sailed along the edge of the Antarctic ice block; on Jan. 16‚ 1773‚ he made the first crossing of the Antarctic Circle. In 1773 he discovered the islands that were named after him. In 1774 he charted the New Hebrides‚ the Marquesas‚ and Easter Island‚ and discovered several Pacific Islands‚ including New Caledonia and Niue. After his return to England in July
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Chile is a South American country occupying a long‚ narrow strip of land between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north‚ Bolivia to the northeast‚ Argentina to the east‚ and the Drake Passage in the far south. Chilean territory includes the Pacific islands of Juan Fernández‚ Salas y Gómez‚ Desventuradas‚ and Easter Island in Oceania. Chile also claims about 1‚250‚000 square kilometres of Antarctica‚ although all claims are suspended under the Antarctic
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States was definitely justified in going to war with Mexico because Mexico wasn’t really using the land that America took‚ America was peaceful and Mexico just randomly killed 16 soldiers‚ and it was America’s manifest destiny to expand to the Pacific Ocean‚ meaning it was God’s will. Mexico gained its independence
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How does the ocean effect the climate on land? The oceans play a huge role in the climate zones we see on land. Even the area that are nowhere close the the oceans are still effected by the ocean. The oceans act as a heater to the world because of them absorbing insolation rays from the sun. The is a result of land temperature altering faster than the oceans does. However‚ the land still absorbs some insolation but cannot maintain the same heat for as long as the ocean. Especially the tropical
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overuse our ocean resources? It is possible to overuse our ocean resources. We can drill and use an excessive amount of oil from the bottom of the ocean. This resource is made up of dead fish and other creatures that sink to the ocean floor and as sediment builds up the dead animal remains decompose and heat up to form the oil and natural gas. This can take up to thousands of years to form and if humans use too much oil we will have to wait another thousand years to use the oil the ocean provides us
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England to Plymouth‚ Massachusetts. 2. Using the scale on the interactive map‚ give the approximate distance in miles that Lewis and Clark traveled from St. Louis to Ft. Clatsop near the Pacific Ocean. Lewis and Clark traveled approximately 1‚400.2 miles from St. Louis to Ft. Clatsop near the Pacific Ocean. 3. Using the scale on the interactive map‚ give the approximate distance in miles that the transcontinental railroad covered from Omaha to San Francisco. The transcontinental railroad
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loveliest fleet of islands that lies anchored in any ocean”. Hawaii is the most unique of the states of America. To further understand the geography of Hawaii‚ one must understand how Hawaii was formed‚ how Hawaii was populated‚ and understand what Hawaii came to be today. To begin‚ Hawaii is the longest chain of islands in the world. It was originally formed by a fissure more than 1600 miles long that lies along the floor of the Pacific Ocean that produced the Hawaiian ridge. Along the ridge then
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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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The Atacama Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Atacama) is a plateau in South America‚ covering a 1‚000-kilometre (600 mi) strip of land on the Pacific coast‚ west of the Andes mountains. It is‚ according to NASA‚ National Geographic and other sources‚ the driest desert in the world.[1][2][3][4] The Atacama occupies 105‚000 square kilometres (41‚000 sq mi)[5] composed mostly of salt lakes (salares)‚ sand‚ and felsic lava flows towards the Andes The Atacama Desert ecoregion‚ as defined by the World Wide
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Spread across nearly 2‚000‚000 square miles of the South Pacific‚ in an area as large as the continent of Europe‚ lies the Territory of French Polynesia and its principal island‚ Tahiti. Settlers from Southeast Asia are thought to have first arrived in the Marquesas Islands‚ in the northeastern part of what is today called French Polynesia‚ around 300 AD and in the Society Islands‚ including Tahiti‚ to the west by about 800 AD. Prior to the first European contact‚ the islands were ruled by a hierarchy
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