Imagine a place with beautiful calm blue waters, soft white sand, and it's a pest free zone! Almost seems like a dream right? Well it is not, today we are visiting the gorgeous island of Bora Bora. Bora Bora is a tropical island in the French Polynesia also know as Tahiti which is made up of one hundred and eighteen island that are divided into five groups. The island's original name was "Pora Pora" since there is not letter 'b' in the Tahitian language, but changed to Bora Bora when Jakob Roggeveen
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Flying Corps practicing at the airfield nearby” (“Amelia Earhart"). In 1920, she went on a ten minute plane ride in Long Beach and decided she wanted to learn how to fly (“Amelia Earhart"). She wanted to be “the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic” (Grossman). Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan, her flying partner, set out on June 1, 1937, to accomplish that goal. By June 29, approximately 22,000 miles of their trip had been completed when they stopped in New Guinea for repairs (“Amelia Earhart")
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A little fleet of ships would always be remembered crossing the Atlantic to reach the America named the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria. Christopher Columbus got permission and funds from the King and Queen of Spain ,so Columbus ordered the three ships to be used during the voyage to get to the Indies. The biggest and slowest ship out of the fleet was the Santa Maria and became Columbus’ flagship. The Santa Maria was built in Pontevedra, Galicia ,so it was sometimes called the La Gallega, meaning
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He traveled across the Atlantic Ocean and then to Maine. Hudson traveled south along the coast till he reached the river. ¨ After navigating the Atlantic coast, Hudson sailed up a great river (which would later be his name) but turned back when they determined it was not the channel they sought¨(History.com). Hudson sailed up the great river
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In these three paragraphs I will be telling you how the Panama Canal was built, the struggles the men who built it had to go through to build this massive canal, I will also talk about how it made an impact on the world past and present day. First I’ll talk about how the Panama Canal was built. First, the French started the canal, which ended in total failure, where there was many cases of Yellow Fever,failed equipment, and loss of too many lives. Then a few years after the French backed out, the
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he Edmund Fitzgerald was the largest freighter on the Great Lakes at the time, and was bound for Detroit, Michigan. On March 10, 1975, the ship sank in Lake Superior. On November 8, a storm was moving towards the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald and the Arthur M. Anderson, bound for Gary, Indiana, decided to change their course, and remained in contact throughout the storm. The storm shifted while over the Great Lakes. The website http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/wxwise/fitz.html states, “At around this
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Dating back to the 16th century, the idea of connecting the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean had its roots in a number of countries destined to make this voyage from one ocean to another seamlessly. Charles, The Holy Emperor, was first coined in developing the idea of such a canal mainly for military advantages against Portugal. In a 1698, the “Darien Scheme,” by the Kingdom of Scotland, developed the idea of creating a passage way across Panama’s isthmus as a method of trade, though was the
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he came across the New World and has since been known as a pioneer to exploration, extending boundaries in search of the unknown. Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa, Italy in 1451. At the age of 25, he set sail on his first trip across the Atlantic ocean. After being attacked by French privateers, Columbus was shipwrecked off the coast of Portugal and forced to make his way to shore. He settled in Lisbon, Portugal and married a women by the name of Felpia Perestrello,
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In 1937, the disappearance of Amelia Earhart during her circumnavigation attempt rattled the world. With Fred Noonan as her navigator and a reputation as an outstanding pilot, Earhart was expected to once again break records with this flight. Nearing the last stop before America, at a small landing strip on Howland Island, Noonan anticipated trouble (Haugen 90). After being unable to locate the Itasca, the U.S. Naval ship deployed outside Howland Island to help guide Noonan, Earhart radios in: “We
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Plastic pollution in the ocean is continuing to increase, causing the death of marine animals and ruining islands that are habitat to many animals. Even uninhabited islands in the middle of the ocean are not immune to the issue even though they are located thousands of miles from any civilization. In particular Henderson Island has been severely impacted by plastic pollution, despite its tiny size and remoteness. This rural island is covered in over 38 million pieces of plastic debris (Parker).
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