At head of title: Ministry of Defence USSR Navy. English version of introduction and indexes of: Tikhii okean. 1974. Cover title: Pacific Ocean, introduction and index, English version. To accompany: ...

In grade school and beyond, we learn about Christopher Columbus and his pioneering voyage of 1492. Merely two decades after it, however, European explorers stumbled on the Pacific, an ocean roughly ...

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