In principle, if a person walks completely around either Pole, they will have crossed all meridians, but this is not generally considered a "circumnavigation." A basic definition of a global circumnav ...
If the Earth were a non-rotating planet, solar heating would cause winds across the mid-latitudes to blow in a poleward direction, away from the subtropical ridge. However, the Coriolis effect caused ...
Elcano was born in 1476 to Domingo Sebastián Elcano I and Catalina del Puerto. He had three brothers: Domingo Elcano II, a Catholic priest, Martín Pérez Elcano, and Antón Martín Elcano.Military l ...
The term trade winds originally derives from the early fourteenth century late Middle English word 'trade' meaning "path" or "track." The Portuguese recognized the importance of the trade winds in nav ...
It was reported by António Galv?o in 1563 that the position of the Strait of Magellan was previously mentioned in old charts as Dragon's Tail (Draco Cola): ... he (Pedro) brought a map which had all ...
Magellan was born around 1480 in Portugal, either at Vila Nova de Gaia, near Porto, in Douro Litoral Province, or at Sabrosa, near Vila Real, in Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro Province. He was the son o ...
There are 6,800 Torres Strait Islanders who live in the area of the Torres Strait, and 42,000 others who live outside of this area, mostly in the north of Queensland, particularly in Townsville and Ca ...
With a total land area of 8,560,000 square kilometres (3,310,000 sq mi), the Australian continent is the smallest and lowest-lying human-inhabited continent on Earth. The continental shelf connecting ...
Some sources say that "Siberia" originates from the old Turkic word for "sleeping land" or "beautiful" (Siber). Another version is that this name was the ancient tribal name of the Sabirs, a nomadic p ...
Born in Stockholm, P??bo is the son of Estonian chemist Karin P??bo and biochemist Sune Bergstr?m. Growing up with his mother, he barely knew his father, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology ...
The Denisova Cave is located in southwestern Siberia, in the Altai Mountains near the border with China and Mongolia. It is named after Denis, a Russian hermit who lived there in the 18th century. The ...
Temple University offers more than 400 degree programs at 17 schools and colleges and 5 professional schools, including programs in art, business, communications, education, engineering, liberal arts, ...
The modern working definition of a gene is a portion (or sequence) of DNA that codes for a known cellular function or process (i.e. the function "make melanin molecules"). A single 'gene' is most simi ...
In 1568, the Spanish navigator ?lvaro de Menda?a was the first European to visit the Solomon Islands archipelago, naming it Islas Salomón ("Solomon Islands") after the wealthy biblical King Solomon ...
New Guinea is one of the most linguistically diverse regions in the world. Besides the Austronesian languages, there are some 800 languages divided into perhaps sixty small language families, with unc ...
