Pacific

Simon Winchester CENTRAL 909.o9823 w759p 2015

• Bomb Testing
• Sony, Masaru Ibuka, began with tape recorders
• Surfing
• Pueblo capture
• Queen Mary burns and Sinks in Hong Kong
• Indochina
• Supercyclone Tracy 1974 Darwin Australia
• Australian politics

• Black and White Smokers discovered by Alvin

  • Nautilus seafloor mining machine

• Coral bleaching
• Pinatubo eruption, abandonment of Clarke Field and Subic Bay in Phillipines, Chinese expansion

• Giant Hawaiian canoe Hokule'a, navigating ancient polynesian way without instruments

  • Polynesian Voyaging Society, Yapese navigator Mau Piailug