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A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the World, 1791-1795
Four of the greatest maritime exploring expeditions were crammed into two decades late in the 18th century - Cook's third voyage, the French expedition commanded by La Pérouse, the Malaspina expedition sent out by Spain, and George Vancouver's Voyage of Discovery. All four visited the northwest coast of North America, but weather and circumstances prevented Cook from making more than what Beaglehole calls ' a magnificent, an epoch-making reconnaissance'; La Pérouse only touched the coast in a significant way at Yakutat Bay and Lituya Bay, and Malasina's memorable visits were to Yakutat Bay and Nootka Sound. Vancouver, by contrast, surveyed the enormous extent of coast from Lower California...
Sailing Directions Pacific Ocean
EDITION 12 FOR 2016 SAILING DIRECTIONS PUB 120 (PLANNING GUIDE) PACIFIC OCEAN AND SOUTHEAST ASIA. SAILING DIRECTIONS PACIFIC OCEAN. PLANNING GUIDE. PACIFIC OCEAN PILOT. Original text by the USA NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY. The surface waters of the Pacific are driven east to west by trade winds to form the North and South Equatorial currents. The North Equatorial Current has its axis approximately on the parallel of 15 N., and the South Equatorial Current generally follows the Equator. Between the two is the Equatorial Countercurrent flowing eastward. The South Pacific Ocean is generally warmer and less subject to wide variability in temperature. The lack of land also allows low ...
A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, and Round the World
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Oceanography of the North Pacific Ocean, Bering Sea, and Bering Strait
Exclusive of fisheries.
