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Period: Feb 24, 1000 to
Oceanography lifespan
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Apr 5, 1002
North America is Discovered
Leif Erikson was a viking who traveled down from Greenland to Canada in the Newfoundland region. -
Nov 10, 1100
Copper hooks
Copper hooks were still in use in 1100 and had been for over 6000 years prior . -
Feb 24, 1200
Islam Grows in Power
The Islamic world grows in size because of their conquest on the sea. They begin to control places outside the Mediterranean Sea and moved into Indian Ocean. -
Jan 3, 1279
Song Dynasty in China
China's Song Dynasty began the exploration of the Indian ocean and even the Pacific. They came back to china realizing that the rest of the world was technologically centuries behind them. -
Feb 25, 1450
Prince Henry the Navigator
He established a naval observatory for the Portuguese. Also led expedition south to Africa's west coast -
Mar 12, 1488
Wrapping around Africa
Bartholomeu Dias was a portuguese explorer, who was the first European to sail around Cape of Good Hope in the most southern point of Africa. -
Aug 8, 1507
America gets its name
America is used as the name of the New World after the great Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci. Vespucci made several voyages to the Americas in the 1500s which led to the creation of more detailed maps of the New World. -
Apr 3, 1513
Vasco Da Gama
He established trade routes in Indian Ocean -
Jul 16, 1513
First European to reach the Pacific
Vasco De Nunez was a conquistador who with his men exlpored the Isthmus of Panama and reached the Pacific ocean. -
Sir Isaac Newton
He published his mathematical findings in 1687 which led to the understanding that gravity created the tides in the ocean. -
Invention of the Marine Chronometer
James Harrison, an english carpenter who created the marine Chronometer. It helped ships at sea find their longitude, which made sea travel safer. -
Captian James Cook
An English explorer who took first soundings and on his first voyage, he circumnavigated from England, to Rio de Janeiro to New Zealand and back to England. -
Creator of the Atlas
Matthew Fontaine Maury was part of the US navy in the 1800s and also he created the first Atlas. He studied ocean currents and weather patterns on ocean. -
The Challenger
The first ship dedicated to the study of the oceans. It was a british ship that sent back ineresting findings to the world. The expedition began in 1872 and ended in 1876. -
Fridjof Nansen
Tested his theory on ice drift by freezing his vessel in ice in the arctic for 35 months. He tested air tempature and water chemestry. in 1896 his ship was released from the ice. -
International Council of the Exploration of the Seas (ICES)
Created in 1902 by Germany, Holland, Great Britian, Russia and the Scandinavian countries. It was the longest lasting international science organization. -
TOPEX Poseidon
In 1992 the US and France put the TOPEX in space to study the circulation of the ocean. It increased public awareness of the importance of the ocean. it recieved information on the ocean from hundreds of buoys throughout the ocean.
