Scientists, such as Gerardus Mercator ( 1569 ) and Alexander Dalrymple as late as 1767 argued for its existence, with such arguments as that there should be a large landmass in the south as a counterweight to the known landmasses in the Northern Hemisphere.

The obsession of the undiscovered continent culminated in the brain of Alexander Dalrymple, the brilliant and erratic hydrographer who was nominated by the Royal Society to command the Transit of Venus expedition to Tahiti in 1769.

For Beaglehole, Cook was a heroic figure who could do practically no wrong, and he is scathing about those contemporaries of Cook who ever ventured to criticise his hero, such as Alexander Dalrymple, the geographer, and Johann Reinhold Forster, who accompanied Cook on the second voyage.

In 1769 the Scottish geographer Alexander Dalrymple, whilst translating some Spanish documents captured in the Philippines in 1762, had found Luis Váez de Torres ' testimony proving a passage south of New Guinea now known as Torres Strait.

Some time between 1762 and 1765, written accounts of the Torres expedition were seen by British Admiralty Hydrographer Alexander Dalrymple.

Notably, Alexander Dalrymple remarked in a note to the Admiralty in March 1808, that " we have few officers ( indeed I do not know one ) in our Service who have half his professional knowledge and ability, and in zeal and perseverance he cannot be excelled ".

Those signing that nomination letter were: James Rennell, William Marsden, Charles Blagden, Alexander Dalrymple, Samuel Harper, George Staunton, Thomas Astle.

* Subtle ( Doseone, Jel, Dax Pierson, Jordan Dalrymple, Alexander Kort, Marty Dowers ) on Lex Records

It was directed by Tim Whelan and produced by Alexander Korda from a screenplay by Ian Dalrymple and Arthur Wimperis, adapted by Lajos Biró from the play Counsel's Opinion by Gilbert Wakefield.

1766: Alexander Inglis Hamilton of Murdoston sells Cleland Estate to Captain Hew Dalrymple of Fordal.

Alexander Dalrymple, engraving by Conrad Westermayr.

Alexander Dalrymple FRS ( 24 July 1737 – 19 June 1808 ) was a Scottish geographer and the first Hydrographer of the British Admiralty.

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* Howard T. Fry, Alexander Dalrymple ( 1737-1808 ) and the Expansion of British Trade, London, Cass for the Royal Commonwealth Society, 1970.

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* Sasha Alexander plays the title character of Dr. Maura Isles, MD on the TNT series Rizzoli & Isles, the Massachusetts Chief Medical Examiner.

He was assistant professor under Alexander Bain at Aberdeen for some years ; from 1874 to 1878 he edited the Examiner, and in 1880 he was made full professor of logic and English at Aberdeen.

* 1980 – The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.

Alexander III was the first pope known to have paid direct attention to missionary activities east of the Baltic Sea.

** The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.

* May – Alexander wins a major victory against the Persians commanded by the Greek mercenary Memnon of Rhodes, in the Battle of the Granicus near the Sea of Marmara.

1868 engraving by Alexander Hay Ritchie depicting the March to the Sea

The seventh is also ambiguous, and may either be a reference to the Sea Peoples, or, again in the view of religious commentators, to the conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great.

Because of conquests by Alexander the Great, Hellenistic civilization flourished from Central Asia to the western end of the Mediterranean Sea.

* Crossing the Elburz Mountains to the Caspian Sea, Alexander seizes Zadracarta in Hyrcania and receives the submission of a group of satraps and Persian notables, some of whom he confirms in their offices.

Often they have been placed in the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the coast of south-western Italy near Paestum or between Sorrento and Capri: " three small islands on the southwest coast of Campania, now Licosa, St. Pietro and La Galetta " reported George Richard Crooks, Christian Frederik Ingersley, on the basis of Alexander Jacob Schem, A new Latin-English school-lexicon, ( Philadelphia ), 1861 s. v.

Alexander led his army to Finland and successfully routed the Swedes, who had made another attempt to block the Baltic Sea from the Russians in 1256.

* Note, Alexander M. Peterson " Sino-Japanese Cooperation in the East China Sea: A Lasting Arrangement?

* Alexander M. Peterson's 2009 Note in the Cornell International Law Journal detailing the dispute, clarifying the legal impact of the 2008 Sino-Japanese arrangement to cooperate in the East China Sea, and proposing increased Sino-Japanese cooperation.

LTJG Alexander Vraciu in his Grumman F6F after the " Mission Beyond Darkness " during the Battle of the Philippine Sea ( June 20, 1944 ).

* Aphrodite Anadyomene (" Aphrodite Rising from the Sea "), showing the goddess rising from the sea ( not the painting he was working on when he died, but an earlier painting ), for which Pliny the Elder relates the tradition he used a former mistress of Alexander, Campaspe, as his model for Aphrodite.

Mare Humboldtianum ( Latin for " Sea of Alexander von Humboldt ") is a lunar mare located within the Humboldtianum basin, just to the east of Mare Frigoris.

On the divisions and boundaries of Europe, Asia and Africa, he repeats Eratosthenes ; like all classical geographers from Alexander the Great ( except Ptolemy ) he regards the Caspian Sea as an inlet of the Northern Ocean, corresponding to the Persian and Arabian ( Red Sea ) gulfs on the south.

When the king of Khwarezm offered friendship to Alexander the Great in 328 BC, Alexander's Greek and Roman biographers imagined the nomad king of a desert waste, but 20th century Russian archeologists revealed the region as a stable and centralized kingdom, a land of agriculture to the east of the Aral Sea, surrounded by the nomads of Central Asia, protected by its army of mailed horsemen, in the most powerful kingdom northwest of the Amu Darya ( the Oxus River of antiquity ).

According to London himself, " much of the Sea Wolf is imaginary development, but the basis is Alexander McLean ".

Sir Alexander Ramsay, third son of the thirteenth Earl, was an Admiral in the Royal Navy and served as Fifth Sea Lord from 1938 to 1939.

It also depicts the date city was founded, the Imperial double headed eagle ( symbolizing Tsar's patronage of Black Sea Cossacks ), a bulawa of a Cossack ataman, Yekaterinodar fortress, and flags with letters " E ", " P ", " A ", and " N " standing for Catherine II, Paul I, Alexander I and Nicholas I. Yellow stars around the shield symbolized 59 Black Sea stanitsas around the city.

* Alexander Mackenzie journeys to the Beaufort Sea, following what would later be named the Mackenzie River.

In 1717, Russian Prince Alexander Bekovich-Cherkassky landed and established a secret fortified settlement on this location, where the dry bed of a former mouth of the Amu-Darya River once emptied into the Caspian Sea.