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Feb 2, 1002
Middle Ages
Lief Eriksson son of Erik the Red was the first European to sailed west of greenland and reached North America 500 years before Columbus. -
Feb 2, 1066
Middle Ages
Vikings were highly engaged in intensive exploration, trade and colonization. -
Feb 2, 1300
Middle Ages
Europeans succesfully establish trade routes includind some partial ocean crossings. -
Feb 2, 1450
Voyages and Discovery
Prince Henry Started a naval observatory to teach navigation and astronomy -
Feb 2, 1500
Voyages and Discovery
Bartholomeu Dias was the first to round the Cap of Good Hope. -
Feb 2, 1506
Voyages and Discovery
Christopher Columbus made four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean to find a new rout to the East Indies. -
Feb 2, 1513
Voyages and Discovery
Vasco Nunez found the Pacific Ocean. -
Voyages and Discovery
Isaac Newton wrote the gravitional law. -
Voyages and Discovery
James Cook one of the finder of Oceanography -
Voyages and Discovery
The first Hydrographic office for mapping the Ocean was established in France. -
Voyages and Dicovery
John Harrison built his first Chronometer -
Challenger Expedition
The HM challenge was the first steamship to cross the Antarctic cirsle. -
Oceanography as Science
Fridtjof Nansen lauched in the Artic expedition and found not lands except for sea. -
20th Century
In 1912 Scripp's was found. -
20th Century
Was when the National Oceanic and Atmospheric administration NOAA was formed. -
New Technology
Polar Orbits- Satelitete technology that help mapping out the whole ocean.
IGy- Exploring the ocean floor. -
1990's - Today -Futur
The UN declare the year of the ocean raise pub lic awarness for human effect. -
Extensive Migration
By 2500 B.c. their was a extensive migration throughout the Sourthwestern pacifice.
By 1500 Polynesians begun more extentive voyages to the east -
The Early Times
The pheonicians were the first to recorded their voyage by sea. -
Tools
The Pheonicians were the first to creat tools so they could gather their foods. For Example boats and fishnets.
