Search results for "HMS Challenger" - New World Encyclopedia

Alexander Emanuel Agassiz
Atlantic and Pacific Ocean aboard the HMS Challenger with the Challenger Expedition ... from 1870 to 1872. Aboard the HMS Challenger, borrowed from the Royal ...

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Christmas Island
During the 1872-76 Challenger expedition to Indonesia, naturalist ... In 1887, Captain Maclear of HMS Flying Fish, having discovered an ...

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Pacific Ocean
in the 1830s, with Charles Darwin aboard; HMS Challenger during the 1870s; the USS Tuscarora (1873-76); and the German Gazelle (1874-76). Although ...

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Falklands War
Some Argentinians occupied South Georgia March 19, 1982. Initially ... in the area by withdrawing the icebreaker, HMS Endurance, while British Nationality ...

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Steam engine
dreadnought battleships, and ocean liners. HMS Dreadnought of 1905 was the ... (2007). These are the Saint Mary’s Challenger,George Wharton, [http://www ...

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