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- Time zone (34024 bytes)
2: ...hy)|meridian]]s of a [[longitude]] that is a multiple of 15? thus making neighboring time zones one ho...
6: ...T]]) is still often used (by the [[BBC]], for example, amongst others) to denote the "base time" to wh...
10: ...for a location is given relative to UTC. Some examples:
18: ...he location is one day later or earlier. Some examples:
31: ...til [[August 2]], [[1880]]. This paragraph only applies to the island of Great Britain, not to the isl... - James Cook (14770 bytes)
1: ...aptainjamescookportrait.jpg|thumb|250px|British explorer James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. 1...
3: ...[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] [[explorers|explorer]] and [[navigator]]. He made three voyages to...
8: ...ced him to the shipbuilder, [[John Walker]] who employed him as an apprentice on a [[collier]] that di...
12: ...olfe]] to make his famous stealth attack on the [[Plains of Abraham]]. Cook's [[surveying]] skills we...
14: ...dness both with the regard to the extent of his explorations and going beyond the instructions given b... - Navigation (15650 bytes)
18: ...lty, only they could trade for aid or evacuate people. The guild secrets might have been lost, had no...
20: ...ully navigated the Pacific Ocean from Hawaii to [[Tahiti]] using no instruments.
37: ...of position based on the measurement of stars and planets with the [[sextant]] allowed ships to naviga...
39: Later developments included the placing of [[lighthouse]]s and [[buoy]]s close to sh...
41: ...onal maritime navigation with a compass uses multiple redundant sources of position information to loc... - Pacific Ocean (14615 bytes)
3: ...lombia]]. The western limit of the ocean is often placed at the [[Strait of Malacca]]. The lowest poin...
9: The [[Portugal|Portuguese]] explorer [[Ferdinand Magellan]] named the ocean. For m...
26: ...low, because little evaporation of seawater takes place in these areas.
42: ... Ring of Fire]] is the world's foremost belt of explosive volcanism.
46: ...ds, high islands, coral reefs, and uplifted coral platforms. Continental islands lie outside the Andes... - Charles Darwin (47469 bytes)
6: ...inued his research and wrote a series of books on plants and animals, now including mankind in ''[[The...
19: ... March [[1827]] Darwin made a presentation to the Plinian society of his discovery that black spores o...
22: ...clergymen who saw it as part of their duties to explore the wonders of God's creation.
26: ...t Cambridge till June and following Henslow's example and advice he was in no rush to take holy orders...
27: ...anted to study natural history in the tropics and planned to visit [[Madeira]] with some class-mates u...
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