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WASHINGTON (Interior Department) â  The U.S. Department of the Interiorâs Office of Insular Affairs applauds the Interior Museum for recently acquiring items donated by Nicole Yamase, who on March 11, 2021, became the first Pacific Islander to descend to the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench. The Interior Museum accepted the items this week in honor of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander Heritage month.
âMay these items represent our strength, pride, resiliency, and the amazing accomplishments we will continue to achieve as Pacific Islanders,â said Nicole Yamase.
âWe often remark that our collection spans from West to East and from sea to sky, but to be given these items that have traveled with Nicole Yamase to the deepest known section of the Earthâs ocean is a first for the museum and incredibly special,â said Tracy Baetz, chief curator of the Interior Museum.
Speakers, Panels Announced For Explorers Club s 2021 Global Exploration Summit
Amanda Gorman s Earthrise , Fabien Cousteau, and Bertrand Piccard anchor second global summit
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2021 Global Exploration Summit (GLEX) s slate of programming will include the world s leading visionaries, explorers and scientists. The second annual summit - made possible with support of Turismo de Portugal and sponsored by VisitAzores - will feature more than 20 panels that will dive into recent advancements in land, sea and space exploration.
Taking place in Portugal and remotely this July, the GLEX Summit s notable confirmed guests include:
Earthrise;
David Blaine, American illusionist, endurance artist, and extreme performer;
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Oceans extreme depths measured in precise detail
Scientists say we now have the most precise information yet on the deepest points in each of Earth s five oceans.
The key locations where the seafloor bottoms out in the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic and Southern oceans were mapped by the Five Deeps Expedition.
Some of these places, such as the 10,924m-deep (6.8 miles) Mariana Trench in the western Pacific, had already been surveyed a number of times.
But the Five Deeps project removed a number of remaining uncertainties.
For example, in the Indian Ocean, there were two competing claims for the deepest point - a section of the Java Trench just off the coast of Indonesia; and a fracture zone to the southwest of Australia.