Join the Magellan Expedition Aboard Scripps' R/V Melville on Google Earth

R/V Melville departed San Diego, Calif., on March 22, 2006, and journeyed to 17 ports and 10 countries including Hawaii, Japan, Samoa, Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, and the Philippines to explore the far reaches of the Pacific Ocean. The ship, operated by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California San Diego, steamed more than 100,000 nautical miles during the two-and-a-half year Magellan Expedition, which took it away from its homeport on San Diego Bay, in Point Loma, Calif., for 49 scientific research missions.