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William Reynolds: the first man to recognize the last continent
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Lancastrians who are all but forgotten today were first to
experiment with steam navigation in America, first to transmit the
human voice from sea to land, and first to recognize the coastline of
Antarctica.
The Antarctica connection is today's primary subject.
Lancastrian William Reynolds and a fellow sailor spotted
Antarctica, the seventh and last continent to be "discovered,'' on
Jan. 16, 1840. From the rigging of their ship, they saw three
mountains at a great distance.
Reynolds and Henry Eld, of New Haven, Conn., together exclaimed
the practical, but hardly immortal, words: "There is ...
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Four New Cardinalfishes (Perciformes: Apogonidae) from the Marquesas Islands [1].
Magazine article from: Pacific Science
; ...example, the Society Islands has 27 chaetodontids...33, and 6. The Marquesas are also special in...23.1% and Easter Island with 22.2% (Randall...high endemism of the Marquesas appears to be their...sea temperature. The Marquesas lie between latitude...W. They are high islands of ...
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New species of extinct rails (Aves: Rallidae) from archaeological sites in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia (1).
Magazine article from: Pacific Science
; ...archaeological sites on four islands in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia...archaeological sites on four islands in the Marquesas Islands...degrees] W, the Marquesas Islands lie ca. 500...Figure 1). The Marquesas consist of 10 major...
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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STAKED OUT IN THE HEAT; In the Marquesas Islands 25 miles off Key West, Fla., giant tarpon can be caught with small flies. To get there, take a big boat for sleeping and eating - and a small skiff for the fight of your life.(SPORTS)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
; ...our mother ship anchored in the Marquesas Islands, North America's only true...shallow-water flats common to the Marquesas, through whose translucent waters...tourism brochure. With me in the Marquesas, which lie about 25 miles offshore...
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Pre-contact arboriculture and vegetation in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia: charcoal identification and radiocarbon dates from Hatiheu Valley, Nuku Hiva.(Report)
Magazine article from: Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific
; ...Because Marquesan islands like Nuku Hiva...development of Pacific Island arboricultural...diachronic patterns of island environmental change...however, such as the Marquesas Islands, paleoenvironmental...in the Pacific Island region. The authors...transformation in the ...
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The fishermen of Anapua Rock Shelter, Ua Pou, Marquesas Islands.
Magazine article from: Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific
; ...practices in various Pacific island groups. This paper presents...deeply stratified site in the Marquesas. The objectives of the study...at the southern end of the island of Ua Pou in the Marquesas Islands. It is difficult to access...
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Cocaine found on a remote beach in the Marquesas Islands.
News Wire article from: PAC - Pacific Islands Broadcasting Association
; ...containing more than 1 kilo of cocaine on the island of Ua Huka, in the Marquesas archipelago, Tahiti Presse reports. Ua Huka...been voluntarily dumped from a ship off the Marquesas Islands but the intended destination remain unclear...
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The changing role of irrigated Colocasia esculenta (taro) on Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands: from an essential element of colonization to an important risk-reduction strategy.
Magazine article from: Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific
; ...proposes that, on the Marquesan island of Nuku Hiva, wet cultivation...paper argues that, for some islands in Polynesia, wet cultivation...farinaceous crop. Nuku Hiva Island in the Marquesas Islands serves as an example, and it...
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Landfall in the garden of Eden. (sailing to the Marquesas Islands in the South Pacific)
Magazine article from: Yachting
; ...in Nuku Hiva in the Isles Marquesas. We tried our school-days...passage from the Galapagos Islands, 3,009 miles to the east...much about the South Seas islands and listened avidly to tales...were ready to slow down to island speed. So we were happy...fast. Another day, another island. This ...
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Adorning the world; art of the Marquesas Islands.(ART, ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; N7411 2005-000844 0-300-10712-9 Adorning the world; art of the Marquesas Islands. Kjellgren, Eric. Metropolitan Museum of Art, [c]2005 128 p. $19.95 (pa) This catalog was issued for an exhibit of...
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Current research on the island of Ua Huka, Marquesas archipelago, French Polynesia.
Magazine article from: Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific
; ...archipelago and few islands in Eastern Polynesia...been undertaken on the island of Ua Huka in the Marquesas Islands (see Fig. 1) for...undertaken on other islands. [FIGURE 1 OMITTED...would think that the Marquesas would be the locality...prehistory of a Marquesan island. In ...
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