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Oceanography as a comprehensive study dates from the Challenger expedition (1872-76), directed by the naturalists C. W. Thomson, a Scot, and John Murray, a Canadian… The success of the Challenger expedition and the importance of ocean knowledge to shipping, fisheries, the laying of telegraph cables, and climatological studies led many nations to send out expeditions.

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