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* total: 155.557 million sq km |
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* total: 155.557 million sq km |
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Growing imperialism during the 19th century resulted in the occupation of much of the Pacific by the Western powers. Significant contributions to oceanographic knowledge were made by the voyages of the H.M.S. Beagle in the 1830s, with Charles Darwin aboard; the H.M.S. Challenger during the 1870s; the U.S.S. Tuscarora (1873-76); and the German Gazelle (1874-76). Although the United States took the Philippines in 1898, Japan controlled the western Pacific by 1914. By the end of World War II the U.S. Pacific Fleet was the virtual master of the ocean. |
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Growing imperialism during the 19th century resulted in the occupation of much of the Pacific by the Western powers. Significant contributions to oceanographic knowledge were made by the voyages of the H.M.S. Beagle in the 1830s, with Charles Darwin aboard; the H.M.S. Challenger during the 1870s; the U.S.S. Tuscarora (1873-76); and the German Gazelle (1874-76). Although the United States took the Philippines in 1898, Japan controlled the western Pacific by 1914. By the end of World War II the U.S. Pacific Fleet was the virtual master of the ocean. |
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