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Plot Your Course

Charting your course on the high seas is a skill required of all...

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Science in a Time of Crisis: Searching for the Plume

Part 4 of a 6-part series describing Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's efforts...

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Political Props

Long before they disappeared from maps, sea monsters were repurposed for politics....

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A Mermaid's Vanity

A siren admires herself in a mirror—a sign of her vanity—amongst ships in the...

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The Many Footed Beast

Polypus (meaning “many-footed”) was used to describe many animals, from the...

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Whales of the Carta Marina

Two whales attack a ship as sailors try to scare them away by tossing barrels and...

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Sea Swine

This sea pig, which was compared to heretics that distorted truth and lived like...

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Mythical Creatures on Maps

An ichthyocentaur (parts human, horse and fish) plays a viol on a map of...

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Sea Monsters of an Early Atlas

Jonah is cast overboard to a sea monster in an image from the earliest known atlas,...

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Curaçao

Curaçao, an island in the southern Caribbean is the site of the...

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Whale Tracking Device

This radio device is used to track North Atlantic right whales. Suction cups hold...

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Introduction to Latitude and Longitude

This lesson introduces students to latitude and longitude. They will look at lines...