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Nov 20, 2011

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Great Travelers

How much beauty in our world! How many wonderful places around! High mountains with snow-white peaks, blowing transparent blue expanse of heaven … Forest landscape with formidable thickets … And, of course, full of secrets, the most poorly studied underwater world!

Ferdinand Magellan (about 1480 – 1521gg.) Navigator, WHO made ​​the first Voyage around the World. In addition, He Discovered the Strait at the southern end of America, and proved the Earth is That Round. Ferdinand Magellan is known to Also Have Given name to the Largest Ocean – the Pacific. And he christened the ocean due to the fact that during all the voyage of his ship F. Magellan did not make it in a storm.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910 to 1997.) – One of the world’s most famous scientists and explorers. During his long life he was able to do a lot of discoveries, most important of which – the underwater world. While all of his underwater discoveries are accompanied by constant shooting of films. Discontinued by his team-fiction film “The World of Silence,” “World Without Sun”, the multi-television series “Hidden Odyssey team Cousteau” are popular and in demand worldwide. And for HIS first book “The World of Silence” and the scenario of “Goldfish” Cousteau Received two Oscars. Also, Jacques Yves Cousteau-WAS Opened, many Instruments, Equipment and accessories for Diving. For example, scuba, underwater camera for filming underwater lights, cameras.

Vasco da Gama (1469-1524gg) – Portuguese navigator, is known as the first European who has made ​​a sea voyage to India. In 1501 the famous explorer, opened the Seychelles. As soon were discovered only seven of the central islands, they are called “cross walked”, translated from the old Portuguese sounds like “seven sisters”. In the Future the number of new “Sisters” Has Increased, BUT the name remained.
Also in honor of HIS in the City State of Goa on the West Coast of India.

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Dzheyms Cooke – (1728-1779gg.) – British Navy officer, explorer, cartographer and a pioneer, a member of the Royal Society and Royal Navy captain. He headed three expeditions to study the ocean, were all circumnavigations. During these expeditions, made a number of geographical discoveries. Explored and mapped the little-known and rarely visited part of it to Newfoundland and the east coast of Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the west coast of North America, Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans. Thanks to the attention that Cook gave cartography, many of them drawn up maps of their precision and accuracy were not surpassed for decades and served as Mariners until the second half of XIX century.

Christopher Columbus (1451-1506gg.) – Spanish explorer and discoverer of new lands. Best known for his discovery of America (1492).
Columbus WAS the first authentically known to travel Across the Atlantic Ocean in the subtropical and Tropical zone of the Northern Hemisphere and the first European to Walk in the Caribbean. He initiated the opening of South America and the Isthmus of Central America. He opened all the Greater Antilles – a central part of the Bahamas, Lesser Antilles (from Dominica to the Virgin Islands inclusive), as well as several smaller islands in the Caribbean island of Trinidad off the coast of South America.

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