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Lief Eriksson son of Erik the Red was the first European to sailed west of greenland and reached North America 500 years before Columbus.
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Vikings were highly engaged in intensive exploration, trade and colonization.
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Europeans succesfully establish trade routes includind some partial ocean crossings.
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Prince Henry Started a naval observatory to teach navigation and astronomy
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Bartholomeu Dias was the first to round the Cap of Good Hope.
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Christopher Columbus made four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean to find a new rout to the East Indies.
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Vasco Nunez found the Pacific Ocean.
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Isaac Newton wrote the gravitional law.
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James Cook one of the finder of Oceanography
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The first Hydrographic office for mapping the Ocean was established in France.
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John Harrison built his first Chronometer
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The HM challenge was the first steamship to cross the Antarctic cirsle.
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Fridtjof Nansen lauched in the Artic expedition and found not lands except for sea.
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In 1912 Scripp's was found.
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Was when the National Oceanic and Atmospheric administration NOAA was formed.
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Polar Orbits- Satelitete technology that help mapping out the whole ocean.
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The UN declare the year of the ocean raise pub lic awarness for human effect.
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By 2500 B.c. their was a extensive migration throughout the Sourthwestern pacifice.
By 1500 Polynesians begun more extentive voyages to the east -
The pheonicians were the first to recorded their voyage by sea.
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The Pheonicians were the first to creat tools so they could gather their foods. For Example boats and fishnets.
