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[Centralia Chronicle] - Other explorers for half a century were to note and report the unusual graveyard until, in 1841, a mapping party under Lt. Charles Wilkes of the United States Navy came to the Columbia River to draw river charts. The party camped one night on the bar
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[Kingston Community News] - The light station was named by Lieutenant Charles Wilkes in May of It is widely unknown that most of the space inside was there to house the fog horn. Two different types of fog horns were used, before the installation of an electronic horn.
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[The Space Review] - Charles Wilkes read about and was inspired by these voyages, not unlike generations of engineers and scientists inspired by the Apollo missions, and wanted to explore because of the giants who went before him. The Great Southern Ocean, especially down
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[Adobe Press] - The other map of the Oregon Territory was created by Charles Wilkes during a trek from to as part of the US Exploration Expedition. Both maps enabled Americans to move west, which in turn enabled the United States to take the region from
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