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- Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...solar time), resulting in time differing slightly from [[town]] to town. As [[telecommunication]]s imp...
6: ... for today's atomically measured time as distinct from time determined by astronomical observation as ...
18: ...ones results in a time the other side of midnight from UTC, then the date at the location is one day l...
31: ... time signals were first transmitted by telegraph from the [[Royal Greenwich Observatory]]. Even thoug...
37: ...ime that is not offset by a number of whole hours from Greenwich Mean Time. - James Cook (14770 bytes)
18: ...1768]], he arrived on [[April 13]], [[1769]] in [[Tahiti]], where he built a small [[Fortification|fort]] ...
20: ...ok Strait]], which separates the [[North Island]] from the South Island, and which Tasman had not gues...
26: ..." was recorded and came into the English language from the local Guugu-Yimidhirr name for a Grey Kanga...
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32: ...mand of Cook's second voyage, but removed himself from the voyage before it began. - Navigation (15650 bytes)
7: ...n senses and knowledge, passed by oral tradition, from navigator to apprentice.
20: ...ully navigated the Pacific Ocean from Hawaii to [[Tahiti]] using no instruments.
39: ... accurate land-based fixes even hundreds of miles from shore. These were made obsolete by satellite na...
43: ...measuring their [[bearing (navigation)|bearings]] from the ship. These [[lines of position]] can be pl...
55: ...7 navigational stars at any time of day or night. From a single sight, a time within a second and an e... - Pacific Ocean (14615 bytes)
3: ...approximately [[1 E7 m|19,800 km]] (12,300 miles) from [[Indonesia]] to the coast of [[Colombia]]. The...
9: ...agellan]] named the ocean. For most of his voyage from the [[Straits of Magellan]] to the [[Philippine...
18: ...]] and [[phillipsite]]. Pelagic sediments derived from seawater include pelagic red clays and the skel...
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36: ...iderable cloudiness, light fluctuating winds, and frequent calms. - Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
4: ...ections, but in [[1858]] the information that [[Alfred Russel Wallace]] now had a similar theory force...
19: ...avid student of [[Robert Edmund Grant]], learning from Grant's enthusiasm for the theories of [[Jean-B...
24: ...divine design]] in nature. He got private tuition from Henslow whose subjects were maths and theology,...
32: [[Image:HMSBeagle.jpeg|thumb|right|HMS Beagle, from an 1841 watercolour by Owen Stanley]]
37: From reading [[Charles Lyell]]'s ''Principles of Geo...
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