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The Six Ships
Image of the six ships by Mark Meyers of the U.S. Exploring Expedition at Orange Bay near Cape
Horn
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Track of the U.S. Exploring Expedition 1838-1842
Jeffrey Ward, Cartographer
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First Sail South, February-March 1839
Jeffrey Ward, Cartographer
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Oregon Territory
Jeffrey Ward, Cartographer
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Charles Wilkes
Lieutenant Charles Wilkes as painted by Thomas Sully
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William Hudson
William Hudson, second-in-command of the U.S. Exploring Expedition, and captain of The Peacock. Hudson was one of Wilkes's best friends in the navy and a respected seaman but lacked nautical surveying experience.
(From the narrative, courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries)
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James Dwight Dana
James Dwight Dana, just twenty-five years old at the beginning of the Expedition, proved to be the Charles Darwin of the voyage. He would publish several important scientific reports and eventually become a professor at Yale, where he was recognized as America's foremost geologist.
(Courtesy Yale University Art Gallery, bequest of Edward Salisbury Dana, B.A. 1870)
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Madeira
The Expedition's first landfall: Madeira.
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Kotowatowa
Kotowatowa, a Maori chief from New Zealand. Herman Melville is said to have based his description of Queequeg in Moby-Dick on this image.
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Necklaces
Necklaces from the Expedition's collection of Fijian artifacts, some of which feature human teeth.
(Courtesy Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, photo by Victor Kranz)
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Birds
Image of birds from the Expedition's scientific reports, showing the hand-colored illustrations that graced these magnificently produced volumes. Only a hundred copies of each report were printed by the U.S. government.
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Lizards
Image of lizards from the Expedition's scientific reports, showing the hand-colored illustrations that graced these magnificently produced volumes. Only a hundred copies of each report were printed by the U.S. government.
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Shells
Image of shells from the Expedition's scientific reports, showing the hand-colored illustrations that graced these magnificently produced volumes. Only a hundred copies of each report were printed by the U.S. government.
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Wolves
Image of wolves from the Expedition's scientific reports, showing the hand-colored illustrations that graced these magnificently produced volumes. Only a hundred copies of each report were printed by the U.S. government.
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