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In 1789, Italian-born Spanish naval officer Alejandro Malaspina set off to visit Spain's colonies in Asia and the Americas. For five years, he and his crew sailed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, discovering, cataloguing and analyzing flora, fauna, seas, people and lands. The Malaspina Expedition, as it came to be…
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By the end of the 18th century, the Spanish had an “empire upon which the sun never sets” long before the British claimed that title. Spain funded more scientific voyages than any other nation to explore and document its empire, the most famous of which was led by Alessandro Malaspina, the Italian-born naval officer who served the Spanish crown.
With two specially-built corvettes, the expedition departed Spain in 1789 to explore Pacific territories as far-flung as Alaska and New Zealand, chronicling and documenting the natural environments, flora and fauna, peoples, cultures, and even political upheavals that enveloped the region. It…
From Larrie's list on voyages of discovery about science, not conquest.
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