Actually,in 1513 Juan Ponce de Leon discovered the Gulf Stream current.
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Who discovered it, and where does it come from? Where does it go? These are but a few of the many questions that are asked about the Gulf Stream. ... There are many doubts about who actually discovered the Gulf Stream.
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www.broward.org/library/bienes/lii14006.htm
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Much of Keys history is chained to the great quantity of ships passing, or trying to pass, their shores since they were discovered. Why are thousands of ships lying sunken on and off our reefs? The primary answer is the flow of the Gulf Stream, bad weather and poor judgment.
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www.keyshistory.org/gulfstream.html
www.keyshistory.org/gulfstream.html
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Gulf Stream - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Gulf Stream , together with its northern extension towards Europe, the North Atlantic Drift, is a powerful, warm, and swift Atlantic ocean current that originates in the Gulf of Mexico, exits th...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Stream
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This course followed the stream to north of the Bahama Islands, then headed east passing near the Bermudas, which the Spaniards soon discovered as they sailed between the Gulf of Mexico and their Iberian homeland.
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www.nha.org/history/hn/HN-v44n2-gulfstream.htm
www.nha.org/history/hn/HN-v44n2-gulfstream.htm
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Matthew Maury has been said to have discovered the Gulf Stream looking for the Paths of the Sea, but it had been discovered long before his time. ... Matthew Maury did not discover the Gulf Stream. Benjamin Franklin published a chart of the Gulf Stream 20 years before Maury was born and neither was Franklin the first.
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tccsa.tc/articles/maury.html
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Voyages of Juan Ponce de Leon: Click to enlargeOn his next voyage, quite by accident, Ponce de Leon discovered the Gulf Stream, which flows out of the Gulf of Mexico. This stream would become extremely important to sailors due to its strong current.
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allaboutexplorers.com/explorers/deleon
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After years of mystery surrounding the Gulf Stream, researchers have finally worked out how it affects European weather. The key, they say, is a corridor of warm air that rises up from the Gulf Stream into the atmosphere. ... A little know fact: Thomas Edison discovered the Gulf Stream.
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www.newscientist.com/article/dn13455
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Officially acknowledged by scholars and sailors since the Spanish Conquistador, Juan Ponce de Leon, discovered Florida, the Gulf Stream’s existence was, according to numerous historians, already recognised by the Seminole Indians. ... The Gulf Stream, like all major currents, is governed by wind-induced circulation on...
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www.theartemistransat.com/60/article.asp?sid=15167
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