An island in the Pacific, or the trail of water churned up behind a ship
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The Real Story Behind "In the Heart of the Sea" | History | Smithsonian  Today Nantucket Island is a fashionable summer resort: a place of T-shirt shops ... to the crew of that ill-fated ship is an epic unto itselfand the inspiration behind the ... Tied up to the wharves or anchored in the harbor were, typically, 15 to 20 .... But the rise of the Pacific sperm whale fishery had a regrettable consequence.
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World War II: The Pacific Islands - The Atlantic  Sep 25, 2011 ... Japanese soldiers fought the island landings fiercely, killing many Allied .... trail in the wake of a Coast Guard-manned LST (Landing Ship, ... is headed for destruction in the water below after being shot down near ... Vehicle Tracked) churn toward the defenses of the strategic island September 15, 1944.
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Free Flashcards about ISLANDS - StudyStack  Free flashcards to help memorize facts about ISLANDS. ... AN ISLAND IN THE PACIFIC, OR THE TRAIL OF WATER CHURNED UP BEHIND A SHIP, WAKE.
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Wake - Wikipedia  In fluid dynamics, a wake may either be: the region of recirculating flow immediately behind a ... Cloud wakes from the Juan Fernndez Islands ... Waterfowl and boats moving across the surface of water produce a wake pattern, first ... of the wake source by around arcsin(1/3) = 19.47 and is made up of feathery wavelets...
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J! Archive - Show #3803, aired 2001-02-28  Of stem, bow, aft or prow, the one that's not in the front of the ship ... An island in the Pacific, or the trail of water churned up behind a ship...
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How did the Pacific Ocean get its name?  After braving perilous seas and navigating through what are now known as the Straits of Magellan, his small fleet entered an unfamiliar ocean in Nov. 1520. He called this body of water pacific, due to the calmness of the water at the time ('pacific' means peaceful).
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Francis Drake's Course in the North Pacific, 1579 - Gamma Theta ...  Jun 1, 1979 ... For over twenty years now it has been the privitege ... of the story of what actually happened ... the Pacific coast of North America. ... Drake's circumnavigation voyage, ... as well state my conviction that the ... suggested in his book, Sir Francis ..... Guatulco Bay is described in the .... to sail directly into the west.
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jeopardy/2597_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  Christine Schmidt: a high school teacher from Miami, Florida (whose 1-day ... painting seen here, it's this complex island dweller with a taste for conquest | Napoleon .... (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports near San Francisco Bay) In 1854 the first active one of these navigation-aiding structures on the West Coast was completed...
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All ashore for a day on a private island Trend: More and more, cruise ...  Mar 8, 1998 ... Many vacationers dream of having a tropical island to themselves, ... on a pristine beach, laze under a palm tree and have waiters at their side to bring. ... christen its Castaway Cay in April when its first ship, the 85,000-ton ... Today, Princess Cruises visits Princess Cays in the Bahamas and Premier takes its...
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Bahasa Inggeris-Bahasa Melayu terjemahan:: Pacific Ocean ::  The Pacific Ocean stretches from the shores of Antarctica to the Bering Strait through ... some 12,000 miles along the parallel of 5 N, between the coasts of Colombia in South America and the Malay Peninsula in Asia. ... The Pacific waters within the belt of calms and variable winds near the Equator have lower salinities than...
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Aleutian Islands - Wikipedia  The Aleutian Islands are a chain of 14 large volcanic islands and 55 smaller ones belonging to both the United States and Russia. They form part of the Aleutian Arc in the Northern Pacific Ocean, occupying .... During his third and last voyage in 1778, Captain James Cook surveyed the eastern portion of the Aleutian...
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The Lost Lands of Mu and Lemuria: Was Australia Once Part of a ...  Sep 1, 2007 ... The thousands of rocky islands scattered throughout the Pacific, including Easter ... The idea of a lost continent known as 'Mu' in the Pacific Ocean does not actually ... in any ancient mythologies as some writers have suggested. ... their continent of Atlantis sinking beneath the waves 850,000 years ago.
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5.5 Bering Strait Region Case Study - Institute of...Bering Strait ...  Island and the United States claiming Little Diomede Island with less than 4 km separating the two ... Vessel traffic in the Bering Strait Region during Summer 2004. This case study ... with the eastern side experiencing fast to intermediate velocities and the deeper western ...... It sits at the north mouth of the. Yukon River, but...
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Polynesia | Polynesian Islands History Facts | DK Find Out  ... a Greek word meaning many islands, is a large area of islands in the Pacific ... crossed the Pacific Ocean in simple, double-hulled canoes called outriggers.
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Pacific Islands - Wikipedia  The Pacific Islands is a term broadly referring to the islands of the Pacific Ocean. Depending on ... the boundaries of the Pacific Ocean that are not considered part of Oceania. ... and Kuril Islands; the island nation of Taiwan and other islands of the Republic of ... New Britain, 35,145, Papua New Guinea, 513,926, 14.62.
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Moby Dick - Computer Science  Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in ...... Harpooners and sailors ...... Was it not so, O New Zealand Jack! thou terror of all cruisers that crossed their wakes in the vicinity of the Tattoo Land? ...... If old Rad were here now, I'd tell him to jump overboard and scatter 'em.
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Free Flashcards about ISLANDS - StudyStack  THE NY TRIBUNE SAID POSSESSION OF THIS ISLAND GROUP WOULD "CONVERT THE PACIFIC OCEAN INTO AN AMERICAN LAKE", PHILIPPINES.
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lost - Search-ID.com  We're not exactly sure what the monster is on the island of this ABC drama, ... "Kate & Hurley discover a hatch that connects the Island to downtown Tokyo" on...
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Aleutian Islands | archipelago, Pacific Ocean | Britannica.com  Dec 18, 2015 ... Aleutian Islands, chain of small islands that separate the Bering Sea (north) ... from the tip of the Alaska Peninsula to Attu Island, Alaska, U.S. The Aleutians ... The Komandor (Commander) Islands near the Kamchatka Peninsula of ... Hunters from Siberia subsequently flocked to the Komandor Islands and...
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Genetics rewrites Pacific prehistory  Apr 28, 2006 ... Thor showed that slow moving sailing rafts would foster marine growth, creating their own ecosystem. ... He was later to find in Peru, confirmation of the legend of Con Tiki ... In his 1952 book 'American Indians in the Pacific', he came to the .... The traditional name for the Haida homeland of Queen Charlotte...
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unclassified - Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability  attaining our nations goals in the Asia-Pacific region ..... Alaska, Guam, Hawaii, Japan/Okinawa, and Korea. Manpower ..... The United States Pacific Fleet Is organized Into a number of Type ...... ships and stood down non-deployed flying squadrons to make up for ...... caused wide-spread damage on the island ov Viti Levu,.