96 relations: Aimé Bonpland, Alexander von Humboldt, Alfred Russel Wallace, Amazon River, Arawak language, Atlantic Ocean, Boa Vista, Roraima, Branco River, Brazil, British Guiana, Carib language, Caroní River, Caspian Sea, Caura River (Venezuela), Charles Marie de La Condamine, Charles Waterton, Ciudad Bolívar, Cuyuni River, Deposition (geology), El Dorado, Emanuel Bowen, Encyclopædia Britannica, Epeirogenic movement, Essequibo River, Fault (geology), Flood, Graben, Groundwater, Guillaume Delisle, Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, Hildesheim, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, Jodocus Hondius, John Arrowsmith (cartographer), John Speed, Jurassic, Lawrence Kemys, League (unit), Magellanic Clouds, Mazaruni River, Mercalli intensity scale, Mica, Nhamini-wi, Nicolas Sanson, North Rupununi, Orinoco, Oyapock, Paleozoic, Paragua River, Pará, ..., Pará River, Parima River, Parimé River, Pedra Pintada, Roraima, Petroglyph, Pictogram, Pira-tapuya, Plate tectonics, Quito, Real Audiencia of Quito, Rift, Rio Negro (Amazon), River delta, Robert Hermann Schomburgk, Roland Stevenson, Roraima, Royal Geographical Society, Rupununi savannah, Samuel Fritz, Savanna, Sedimentary rock, Silicate, Silver mining, Siparuni River, Slate, Society of Jesus, Solimões River, South America, Surface runoff, Takutu Formation, Takutu River, Talc, The Guianas, Theodor de Bry, Thomas Roe, Triassic, Tucano people, Vaupés River, Venezuela, Vincenzo Coronelli, Walter Raleigh, West Indies, Wet season, Willem Blaeu, William Faden, Yale University. Expand index (46 more) »
Aimé Bonpland
Aimé Jacques Alexandre Bonpland (August 1773 – May 1858) was a French explorer and botanist who traveled with Alexander von Humboldt in Latin America from 1799 to 1804.
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Alexander von Humboldt
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 17696 May 1859) was a Prussian polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and influential proponent of Romantic philosophy and science.
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Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace (8 January 18237 November 1913) was an English naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist.
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Amazon River
The Amazon River (or; Spanish and Amazonas) in South America is the largest river by discharge volume of water in the world, and either the longest or second longest.
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Arawak language
Lokono (Lokono Dian, literally 'people’s talk' by its speakers), also referred to as Arawak (Arowak/Aruák), is an Arawak language spoken by the Lokono people of South America in eastern Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.
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Atlantic Ocean
The Atlantic Ocean is the second largest of the world's oceans with a total area of about.
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Boa Vista, Roraima
Boa Vista (Good View) is the capital of the Brazilian state of Roraima.
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Branco River
The Branco River (Rio Branco; Engl: White River) is the principal affluent of the Rio Negro from the north.
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Brazil
Brazil (Brasil), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (República Federativa do Brasil), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America.
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British Guiana
British Guiana was the name of the British colony, part of the British West Indies (Caribbean), on the northern coast of South America, now known as the independent nation of Guyana.
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Carib language
Carib or Kari'nja is a Cariban language spoken by the Kalina people (Caribs) of South America.
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Caroní River
The Caroni River is the second most important river of Venezuela, the second in flow, and one of the longest, from the Tepui Kuquenan, where it originates with the same name Kuquenan, up to its confluence with the River Orinoco to which it belongs.
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Caspian Sea
The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed inland body of water on Earth by area, variously classed as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea.
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Caura River (Venezuela)
The Caura, is a tributary of the Orinoco River, located in Bolívar State in Venezuela.
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Charles Marie de La Condamine
Charles Marie de La Condamine (28 January 1701 – 4 February 1774) was a French explorer, geographer, and mathematician.
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Charles Waterton
Charles Waterton (3 June 1782 – 27 May 1865) was an English naturalist and explorer.
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Ciudad Bolívar
Ciudad Bolívar (Spanish for "Bolivar City"), formerly known as Angostura, is the capital of Venezuela's southeastern Bolívar State.
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Cuyuni River
The Cuyuni River is a South American river and a tributary of the Essequibo River.
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Deposition (geology)
Deposition is the geological process in which sediments, soil and rocks are added to a landform or land mass.
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El Dorado
El Dorado (Spanish for "the golden one"), originally El Hombre Dorado ("The Golden Man") or El Rey Dorado ("The Golden King"), was the term used by the Spanish Empire to describe a mythical tribal chief (zipa) of the Muisca native people of Colombia, who, as an initiation rite, covered himself with gold dust and submerged in Lake Guatavita.
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Emanuel Bowen
Emanuel Bowen (1694?–1767) was an English map engraver, who worked for George II of England and Louis XV of France as a geographer.
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Encyclopædia Britannica
The Encyclopædia Britannica (Latin for "British Encyclopaedia"), published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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Epeirogenic movement
In geology, epeirogenic movement (from Greek epeiros, land, and genesis, birth) is upheavals or depressions of land exhibiting long wavelengths and little folding apart from broad undulations.
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Essequibo River
The Essequibo River (Río Esequibo) is the largest river in Guyana, and the largest river between the Orinoco and Amazon.
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Fault (geology)
In geology, a fault is a planar fracture or discontinuity in a volume of rock, across which there has been significant displacement as a result of rock-mass movement.
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Flood
A flood is an overflow of water that submerges land that is usually dry.
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Graben
In geology, a graben is a depressed block of the Earth's crust bordered by parallel faults.
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Groundwater
Groundwater is the water present beneath Earth's surface in soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations.
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Guillaume Delisle
Guillaume Delisle, also spelled Guillaume de l'Isle, (28 February 1675, Paris – 25 January 1726, Paris) was a French cartographer known for his popular and accurate maps of Europe and the newly explored Americas.
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Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales
Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (19 February 1594 – 6 November 1612) was the elder son of James VI and I, King of England and Scotland, and his wife, Anne of Denmark.
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Hildesheim
Hildesheim (Eastphalian: Hilmessen) is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany with 103,804 inhabitants.
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Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville
Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (born in Paris July 11, 1697January 28, 1782) was a geographer and cartographer who greatly improved the standards of map-making.
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Jodocus Hondius
Jodocus Hondius (Latinized version of his Dutch name: Joost de Hondt) (14 October 1563 – 12 February 1612) was a Flemish engraver and cartographer.
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John Arrowsmith (cartographer)
John Arrowsmith (1790–1873) was an English geographer (mapmaker) and member of the Arrowsmith family of geographers.
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John Speed
John Speed (1551 or 1552 – 28 July 1629) was an English cartographer and historian.
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Jurassic
The Jurassic (from Jura Mountains) was a geologic period and system that spanned 56 million years from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period Mya.
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Lawrence Kemys
Lawrence Kemys or Keymis (died 1618) was a seaman and companion of Sir Walter Raleigh in his expeditions to Guiana in 1595 and 1617-18.
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League (unit)
A league is a unit of length.
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Magellanic Clouds
The Magellanic Clouds (or Nubeculae Magellani) are two irregular dwarf galaxies visible in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere; they are members of the Local Group and are orbiting the Milky Way galaxy.
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Mazaruni River
The Mazaruni River is a tributary of the Essequibo River in northern Guyana.
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Mercalli intensity scale
The Mercalli intensity scale is a seismic intensity scale used for measuring the intensity of an earthquake.
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Mica
The mica group of sheet silicate (phyllosilicate) minerals includes several closely related materials having nearly perfect basal cleavage.
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Nhamini-wi
The Nhamini-wi is, according to indigenous oral history, an ancient trail leading from the Amazon jungle to the mountains in the west.
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Nicolas Sanson
Nicolas Sanson (20 December 1600 – 7 July 1667) was a French cartographer, termed by some the creator of French geography, in which he's been called the "father of French cartography.".
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North Rupununi
The North Rupununi District in located in south-west Guyana consisting of a mixture of forest, savannah and wetlands ecosystems and is considered one of the most diverse areas in South America.
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Orinoco
The Orinoco River is one of the longest rivers in South America at.
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Oyapock
The Oyapock or Oiapoque River is a 370-km (230-mi)–long river in South America that forms most of the border between French Guiana and the Brazilian state of Amapá.
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Paleozoic
The Paleozoic (or Palaeozoic) Era (from the Greek palaios (παλαιός), "old" and zoe (ζωή), "life", meaning "ancient life") is the earliest of three geologic eras of the Phanerozoic Eon.
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Paragua River
The Paragua River is a river of Venezuela.
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Pará
Pará is a state in northern Brazil traversed by the lower Amazon River.
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Pará River
The Pará River runs for approximately 40 miles, around the west and south of the island of Marajó.
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Parima River
The Parima River is a river of Roraima state in northern Brazil.
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Parimé River
The Parimé River is a river of Roraima state in northern Brazil.
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Pedra Pintada, Roraima
The Pedra Pintada or Painted Rock (not to be confused with Caverna da Pedra Pintada in Pará State), is a large rock located in the state of Roraima, Brazil.
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Petroglyph
Petroglyphs are images created by removing part of a rock surface by incising, picking, carving, or abrading, as a form of rock art.
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Pictogram
A pictogram, also called a pictogramme, pictograph, or simply picto, and in computer usage an icon, is an ideogram that conveys its meaning through its pictorial resemblance to a physical object.
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Pira-tapuya
The Pira-tapuya, or Pira-Tapuia, Piratapuyo etc.
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Plate tectonics
Plate tectonics (from the Late Latin tectonicus, from the τεκτονικός "pertaining to building") is a scientific theory describing the large-scale motion of seven large plates and the movements of a larger number of smaller plates of the Earth's lithosphere, since tectonic processes began on Earth between 3 and 3.5 billion years ago.
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Quito
Quito (Kitu; Kitu), formally San Francisco de Quito, is the capital city of Ecuador, and at an elevation of above sea level, it is the second-highest official capital city in the world, after La Paz, and the one which is closest to the equator.
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Real Audiencia of Quito
The Real Audiencia of Quito (sometimes referred to as la Presidencia de Quito or el Reino de Quito) was an administrative unit in the Spanish Empire which had political, military, and religious jurisdiction over territories that today include Ecuador, parts of northern Peru, parts of southern Colombia and parts of northern Brazil.
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Rift
In geology, a rift is a linear zone where the lithosphere is being pulled apart and is an example of extensional tectonics.
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Rio Negro (Amazon)
The Rio Negro (br; Río Negro "Black River") is the largest left tributary of the Amazon River, the largest blackwater river in the world (accounting for about 14% of the water in the Amazon basin), and one of the world's ten largest rivers by average discharge.
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River delta
A river delta is a landform that forms from deposition of sediment carried by a river as the flow leaves its mouth and enters slower-moving or stagnant water.
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Robert Hermann Schomburgk
Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk (5 June 1804 – 11 March 1865) was a German-born explorer for Great Britain who carried out geographical, ethnological and botanical studies in South America and the West Indies, and also fulfilled diplomatic missions for Great Britain in the Dominican Republic and Thailand.
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Roland Stevenson
Roland Wilhelm Vermehren Stevenson (Chile, August 15, 1934 – Manaus, October 2016) or simply Roland Stevenson as he used to sign is work, was a Chilean researcher, explorer, writer and artist who moved to Brazil, living in the city of Manaus until his last days and making great contributions on the Yanomami culture and Eldorado research.
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Roraima
Roraima (Pemon: roro imã, "parrot mountain" i.e. "Green Peak") is the northernmost and least populated state of Brazil, located in the Amazon region.
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Royal Geographical Society
The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) is the UK's learned society and professional body for geography, founded in 1830 for the advancement of geographical sciences.
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Rupununi savannah
The Rupununi Savannah is a savanna plain in Guyana, in the Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo region.
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Samuel Fritz
Samuel Fritz SJ (9 April 1654 – 20 March 1725, 1728 or 1730) was a Czech Jesuit missionary, noted for his exploration of the Amazon River and its basin.
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Savanna
A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland grassland ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.
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Sedimentary rock
Sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the deposition and subsequent cementation of that material at the Earth's surface and within bodies of water.
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Silicate
In chemistry, a silicate is any member of a family of anions consisting of silicon and oxygen, usually with the general formula, where 0 ≤ x Silicate anions are often large polymeric molecules with an extense variety of structures, including chains and rings (as in polymeric metasilicate), double chains (as in, and sheets (as in. In geology and astronomy, the term silicate is used to mean silicate minerals, ionic solids with silicate anions; as well as rock types that consist predominantly of such minerals. In that context, the term also includes the non-ionic compound silicon dioxide (silica, quartz), which would correspond to x.
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Silver mining
Silver mining is the resource extraction of silver by mining.
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Siparuni River
The Siparuni River is a river in the Potaro-Siparuni Region of Guyana.
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Slate
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism.
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Society of Jesus
The Society of Jesus (SJ – from Societas Iesu) is a scholarly religious congregation of the Catholic Church which originated in sixteenth-century Spain.
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Solimões River
Solimões is the name often given to upper stretches of the Amazon River in Brazil from its confluence with the Rio Negro upstream to the border of Peru.
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South America
South America is a continent in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Surface runoff
Surface runoff (also known as overland flow) is the flow of water that occurs when excess stormwater, meltwater, or other sources flows over the Earth's surface.
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Takutu Formation
The Takutu Formation is a Mesozoic geologic formation in Guyana and northern Brazil.
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Takutu River
The Takutu River (Takatu River, Tacutu River) is a river in the Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo Region of Guyana and Roraima in Brazil.
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Talc
Talc or talcum is a clay mineral composed of hydrated magnesium silicate with the chemical formula H2Mg3(SiO3)4 or Mg3Si4O10(OH)2.
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The Guianas
The Guianas, sometimes called by the Spanish loan-word Guayanas (Las Guayanas), are a region in north-eastern South America which includes the following three territories.
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Theodor de Bry
Theodorus de Bry (also Theodor de Bry) (1528 – 27 March 1598) was an engraver, goldsmith, editor and publisher, famous for his depictions of early European expeditions to the Americas.
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Thomas Roe
Sir Thomas Roe (c. 1581 – 6 November 1644) was an English diplomat of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods.
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Triassic
The Triassic is a geologic period and system which spans 50.6 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.9 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period Mya.
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Tucano people
The Tucano people (sometimes spelt Tukano) are a group of indigenous South Americans in the northwestern Amazon, along the Vaupés River and the surrounding area.
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Vaupés River
Vaupés River (Uaupés River) is a tributary of the Rio Negro in South America.
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Venezuela
Venezuela, officially denominated Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (República Bolivariana de Venezuela),Previously, the official name was Estado de Venezuela (1830–1856), República de Venezuela (1856–1864), Estados Unidos de Venezuela (1864–1953), and again República de Venezuela (1953–1999).
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Vincenzo Coronelli
Vincenzo Coronelli (August 16, 1650 – December 9, 1718) was a Franciscan friar, cosmographer, cartographer, publisher, and encyclopedist known in particular for his atlases and globes.
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Walter Raleigh
Sir Walter Raleigh (or; circa 155429 October 1618) was an English landed gentleman, writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer.
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West Indies
The West Indies or the Caribbean Basin is a region of the North Atlantic Ocean in the Caribbean that includes the island countries and surrounding waters of three major archipelagoes: the Greater Antilles, the Lesser Antilles and the Lucayan Archipelago.
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Wet season
The monsoon season, is the time of year when most of a region's average annual rainfall occurs.
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Willem Blaeu
Willem Janszoon Blaeu (157121 October 1638), also abbreviated to Willem Jansz.
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William Faden
William Faden (1749 – 1836) was an English cartographer and a publisher of maps.
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Yale University
Yale University is an American private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Parime