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1.3 What Started Scientific Exploration of the Oceans?
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This website explains the Challenger Expedition. It discusses the path the HMS Challenger took, the length of the trip, and briefly where it explored. There are tabs along the side where a user can choose to look at other explorers including Polynesian seafarers, Benjamin Franklin, and Charles Darwin.

A discussion of the history of oceanography. The video discusses what the original explorers studied in the sea and continues through Benjamin Franklin, James Cook, and Charles Darwin. Discusses the Challenger Expedition and the Challenger Report. The video talks about the founding of oceanography up to present time including the reports and discoveries made. It discusses the different branches of oceanography. This is not really a video. It has a picture of the world with Oceanography Thermohaline Circulation with a woman talking. There is a lot of good information.

This website includes a timeline with red arrows that a user can click on to see what happened in the history of oceanography including pictures and writing.

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