In the winter of 1769, the British explorer Captain James Cook, early into his first voyage across the Pacific ... and mapped this vast ocean without any of the navigational tools that Cook ...

America was named after Amerigo Vespucci, a Florentine navigator and explorer who played a prominent role in exploring the New World. On May 10 ... Pacific Ocean, though Balboa allegedly spied it ...

The islands scattered along the north shore of New Guinea first drew ... alone in the ocean, for only they had the canoes and navigational skills needed to push so far into the Pacific.

American explorer, Victor Vescovo broke the record for the deepest dive while descending nearly 11 kilometers into the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean ... a period of 10 months.