marine biology

Egyptians

earliest recorded sea voyage

phoenicians

the first accomplished western navigators

pacific Islanders (polynesians)

these people had been moving easily among islands off the coast of south East Asia and Indonesia since 3000 B.C.E and were beginning the mid pacific islands

Greeks

they begin to explore outside the Mediterranean into the Atlantic ocean around 900-700 B.C.E.

Vikings

longes ranging European vessels extant and they were ahead of their time and discovered Iceland, Greenland, Newfoundland and Canada

Chinese

They realized Earth had been shaped by sedimentation, rock formation, uplift and erosion over great spans of time

columbus

new route to Asia discovered USA

vespucci

realized that America wasn’t part of Asia

Balboa

discovered the pacific oceans

magellan drake

first to sail around the world

Maury

father of oceanography and found out how to calculate ocean currents and winds

Cook

included naturalists and the 1st to use the chronometer

Darwin

Came up with the natural selection theory and studied atolls, plankton and barnacles

Challenger

First major exploration devoted to the study of marine organisms

-sediment and water samples

-depth soundings

wikes

commanded the U.S. first exploratory

Challenger 2

discovered the deepest point and trench