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3 days ago · The small fleet led by Hendrik Brouwer managed to enter the Pacific Ocean sailing south of Isla de los Estados disproving earlier beliefs that it was part of Terra Australis.
4 days ago · The Roaring Forties were a major aid to ships sailing the Brouwer Route from Europe to the East Indies or Australasia during the Age of Sail, and in modern times are favoured by yachtsmen on round-the-world voyages and competitions.
Jul 13, 2024 · Genealogy for Hendrik Brouwer (deceased) family tree on Geni, with over 260 million profiles of ancestors and living relatives. People Projects Discussions Surnames
Jul 18, 2024 · In 1611, Hendrik Brouwer came up with a new, faster route around the southern tip of Africa to reach Java which involved sailing due east from the Cape of Good Hope (rather than back up the east coast of Africa and around the northern coast of the Indian Ocean) taking advantage of the "Roaring Forties", and provided a rapid passage.
Jul 1, 2024 · By exploiting the sparsity, an optimization method can be established based on GAs, the target of which is to search for a good solution, A, to the modal identification model of Eq. (4). Before describing the process of the proposed method, some essential concepts of a GA are introduced as follows.
Jul 17, 2024 · Unexpectedly, the diatom only grows photoautotrophically in 21% of the sunlit ocean samples, while the majority of the samples indicate a mixotrophic (71%) or, in some cases, even a heterotrophic (8%) lifestyle in the light. Our findings highlight C. closterium’ s metabolic flexibility and its potential role in global carbon cycling.
2 days ago · K. Burke, M. Ferland, S.H. Teng, Winning the war by (strategically) losing battles: settling the complexity of grundy-values in undirected geography, in: Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), IEEE, 2021.
