Sunday 14 April 2019

Which regions did Jacques Piccard explore?


This Swiss scientist plunged, in bathyscaphe, into the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean.
With US Navy officer Don Walsh, he broke a record of descent, reaching 10 910 m deep in the Marianas Trench, the deepest underwater valley.

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  • Marco Polo was only 17 when he began the difficult journey from Europe to China.
  •  Livingstone was the first European to see Victoria Falls in Africa. 
  • In 1863 John Hanning Speke proved that the Nile had its source in Lake Victoria.
  •  In 1969, two American astronauts, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, set foot on the moon. 
  • The brothers Verendrye two Frenchmen, are probably the first Europeans to see the Rockies, around 1740



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