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Alvin
Alvin was the first manned deep-sea submersible – a vessel capable of taking crew down to the ocean floor.
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Amelia Blanford Edwards
British writer and explorer who promoted the protection and preservation of ancient Egyptian sites
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GPS
GPS uses a series of orbiting satellites that receive and send radio signals to determine location and, in some cases, speed.
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James Cook
British navigator and explorer who explored the Pacific Ocean and several islands in this region. He is credited as the first European to discover the Hawaiian Islands.
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James Cook Interactive Map
James Cook explored much of the Pacific Ocean, and became the first European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, already inhabited by Polynesians
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Jeanne Baret
She was a French botanist and explorer. She unknowingly became the first woman to sail around the entire globe.
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Jeanne Baret Interactive Map
Jeanne Baret unknowingly became the first woman to circumnavigate the globe while working as a botanist collecting and studying plants around the world
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John Franklin
He is known for mysteriously disappearing while leading an expedition in search of the Northwest Passage, a waterway that connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in northern Canada
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Marie Tharp
Oceanographer and geologist who helped create the first map of the ocean floor, proving that it was not just the flat surface most people believed it to be.
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Matthew Flinders
He was a leading maritime explorer of Australia. He named the continent and produced the most accurate early atlas of the geography
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Matthew Flinders Interactive Map
Matthew Flinders’ expeditions lead to the discovery that Australia was not part of a larger land mass, but was its own island continent, which he mapped and became the first European to circumnavigate
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Matthew Henson
The first African-American to reach one of earth’s farthest places – the North Pole.
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Roald Amundsen
He led the first expedition to reach the South Pole and was the first person to successfully traverse the Northwest Passage.
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Roald Amundsen Interactive Map
Roald Amunsen’s Arctic and Antarctic expeditions took him to some of the farthest places on earth still not yet discovered, including the South Pole
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ROV
Controlled by a crew aboard a vessel on the surface, ROVs can explore and work in the deepest parts of the ocean.
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SONAR
SONAR is a tool that allows ships and other vessels to find and identify objects in the water through a system of sound pulses and echoes.
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Sylvia Earle
Sylvia A. Earle is an American marine biologist, explorer, and activist for protecting our world’s ocean and its inhabitants
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Tektite
Submerged underwater, the Tektite laboratory allowed scientist to explore the ocean floor longer and more up close.