Virtually 2 hundred years in the past, a flotilla of six Navy ships, crewed by about 350 army and civilians, together with botanists and mineralogists, left port to discover the huge Pacific Ocean, north and south. The U.S. Exploring Expedition, a deliberate step by an rising nation with an eye fixed on changing into a world energy, collected navigational information helpful to U.S. seafarers and documented pure traits of the nice Pacific to assist U.S. naval operations and encourage seaborne commerce. The expedition improved coastal and ocean surveys in waters central to U.S. pursuits over the following…
