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'''[[Charles Wilkes]]''' was an [[United States Navy|American naval]] officer, ship's captain, and explorer. The Exploring Expedition, commonly known as the "Wilkes Expedition," included naturalists, botanists, a mineralogist, taxidermists, artists and a philologist, and it was carried by USS ''Vincennes'' (780 tons) and [[USS Peacock|USS ''Peacock'']] (650 tons), the brig USS ''Porpoise'' (230 tons), the store-ship USS ''Relief'', and two schooners, USS ''Sea Gull'' (110 tons) and USS ''Flying Fish'' (96 tons).
The '''[[San Joaquin kit fox]]''' is the smallest member of the dog family in North America and one of several endangered species that lives within the borders of the [[Colony of Calsahara]]. In 1990, its population was estimated to be 7,000. This subspecies is still endangered, after nearly 50 years of being on the Endangered Species List. Today, much of the kit fox's remaining habitat is extremely fragmented, movement corridors are degraded or blocked, and only a few large areas of native grasslands remain on the San Joaquin Valley's perimeter in the [[Carrizo Plain]].


Departing from Hampton Roads on 18 August 1838, the expedition stopped at the Madeira Islands and Rio de Janeiro; visited Tierra del Fuego, Chile, Peru, the Tuamotu Archipelago, Samoa, and New South Wales; from Sydney sailed into the [[Southern Ocean|Antarctic Ocean]] in December 1839 and reported the discovery "of an [[Antarctica|Antarctic continent]] west of the [[Balleny Islands]]" of which it sighted the coast on 25 January 1840.


<p><small>Artist: Thomas Sully</small></p>
 
<p><small>Photographer: [[Grand Duke Travis]]</small></p>
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The San Joaquin kit fox is the smallest member of the dog family in North America and one of several endangered species that lives within the borders of the Colony of Calsahara. In 1990, its population was estimated to be 7,000. This subspecies is still endangered, after nearly 50 years of being on the Endangered Species List. Today, much of the kit fox's remaining habitat is extremely fragmented, movement corridors are degraded or blocked, and only a few large areas of native grasslands remain on the San Joaquin Valley's perimeter in the Carrizo Plain.


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