- Benjamin Franklin and the Gulf Stream
Benjamin Franklin did not discover the Gulf Stream, but he did make an early map of it.
http://www.oceansonline.com/ben_franklin.htm
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- Captain James Cook
The great explorer of the South Seas.
http://www.mariner.org/age/cook.html
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- Challenger expedition
The Challenger Expedition was a scientific expedition that made many discoveries to lay the foundation of oceanography.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenger_expedition
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- CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
Perhaps the most famous explorer.
http://www.mariner.org/age/columbus.html
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- Ferdinand Magellan
The first circumnavigator of the globe.
http://www.mariner.org/age/magellan.html
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- Fridtjof Nansen
The Norwegian Polar Explorer.
http://www.nersc.no/index2.php?display=fridtjofnansen
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- Fridtjof Nansen Links
Series of links to Nansen websites.
http://www.mnc.net/norway/Frit-nan.htm
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- H.M.S. Challenger
Another Challenger Expedition website.
http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/OTHERS/CSMS/hmschall.html
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- Navigation in the Western Pacific
Learn how ancient peoples of the Pacific navigated from island to island
http://www.museum.upenn.edu/Navigation/Misc/contents.html
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- Prince Henry, the Navigator
The man chiefly responsible for Portugal's age of exploration.
http://www.mariner.org/age/princehenry.html
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- Roald Amundsen
First man to the South Pole.
http://www.south-pole.com/p0000101.htm
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- Roald Amundsen links
Series of links about Amundsen.
http://www.mnc.net/norway/roald.html
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- Sir Francis Drake
The second circumnavigation of the globe was accomplished by a pirate-turned-explorer named Francis Drake
http://www.mariner.org/age/drake.html
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- Sir Francis Drake
A synopsis of Drake's voyage around the world.
http://www.mcn.org/2/oseeler/drake.htm
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- The Challenger Oceanographic Expedition
The Challenger Expedition claims the title of the world's first totally scientific oceanographic expedition.
http://www.oceansonline.com/challenger_ex.htm
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- Vasco da Gama
Followed Bartolomeu Dias' route to the Cape of Good Hope and continued sailing along the other side of the African continent to the east. Discovered a route to India
http://www.mariner.org/age/dagama.html
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- Viking Explorers
Vikings made remarkable journeys across the Atlantic Ocean basin. This site provides a brief history of their achievements
http://www.mariner.org/age/vikingexp.html
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