Quotes About Wilkes

The meteor mentioned in this book that caused the massive Wilkes Crater in Antarctica is believed to have triggered the Permian mass extinction, which came within a hairsbreadth of ending all life.

Ordinary gestures, done with simplicity and purity of heart, take on new meaning

Puritanical observers of the goings-on at Kororareka were horrified. Charles Wilkes, who visited the Bay of Islands with the U.S. Exploring Expedition in 1840, described a slum town made up of "about twenty houses, scarcely deserving the name, and many shanties, besides tents.