Sentences with word «circumnavigation»

I am certain someone has already computed the accumulated distance that will be achieved between now and October by Martin Creed's runners in Tate Britain, in terms of circumnavigations of the planet or trips to the moon, the hours run and the energy expended.

A magnificent vessel styled after the famous ship in which Joshua Slocum achieved the first solo circumnavigation of the globe in 1898.

So the perfect way to view the British Isles is on a coastal circumnavigation in the summer when the countryside is at its best and the many gardens at their most splendid.

The new itinerary includes the line's first circumnavigation of South America on a world cruise, plus its biggest focus ever on Japan.

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For the ultimate Australia and New Zealand experience, guests can combine an 18 - night Auckland to Perth cruise, departing on 16 February 2016, with a 17 - night sailing from Perth to Sydney to create a 35 - night circumnavigation of Australia and New Zealand, visiting 19 destinations:

When you're on a floating hotel for a 14 - day circumnavigation of New Zealand, the accommodations, the meals, the diversions on board all take on heightened significance.

Under even the best of circumstances, a nine - month circumnavigation of the globe is no vacation, which is probably why The Whitbread Round the World Race, a quadrennial event first organized in 1973, has been described as the Mount Everest of yacht racing.

Join Aurora's South America Circumnavigation which caters for a whole spectrum of travelling tastes or Aurora's Amazon, Caribbean & Central America Adventure.

The Malaspina Circumnavigation Expedition 2010, a project led by CSIC that includes more than 400 researchers from around the world, started in December 15th 2010 with the departure of the Hespérides oceanographic research vessel from the port of Cadiz.

After nearly two years of planning, a team of scientists from the United States and Cuba has explored never - before - studied mesophotic coral reefs during a month - long circumnavigation of the entire coast of Cuba, which spans about 1,500 miles (2,729 kilometers).

An enthralling documentary about an Englishman named Donald Crowhurst who, in 1968, set off on a solitary, nonstop circumnavigation of the globe.

On May 18, 2014, the Hokule'a began a three - year circumnavigation of the earth.

Attempted Circumnavigation of Rikers Island.

The itineraries offer a full circumnavigation of Cuba, with two days to spend in Havana.

Our standard minimum to confirm a departure is 4 guests for our Isla Carmen Circumnavigation kayak tour.

Whereas in 1995, during his first around - the - world circumnavigation, he was able to travel at a latitude of 62 degrees south, now he can't make the journey below 45 degrees due to ice masses that have separated, or calved, from Antarctica.

He is very good at circumnavigation my safeguards for our furniture.

Longer term, the goal is to become part of a 75 - mile path from Vermont to Connecticut (and a 38 - mile circumnavigation of Mount Greylock, Massachusetts» highest peak), with MASS MoCA acting as one of the key destination attractions on this statewide path — connecting art and nature lovers in a way that conjoins the two fundamental strengths of the Berkshire tourism economy.

Bertrand Piccard has unveiled the Solar Impulse, the precursor to a craft expected to both make a sun - powered circumnavigation and solar energy cool.

This is all part of his grand vision of a self - propelled circumnavigation of the globe, taking in the highest summits on six continents.

O soul, repressless, I with thee and thou with me, Thy circumnavigation of the world begin, Of man, the voyage of his mind's return, To reason's early paradise....

It is more than half a world of circumnavigation away,» said Ryan Spackman, a NOAA atmospheric scientist familiar with the study.

«They already have the capability,» he says, «to do a lunar circumnavigation mission just about anytime they want to in unmanned form, and then ultimately fly it manned.»

Maybe circumnavigation aboard modern zeppelins.

Enter the new Swiss Polar Institute and their first major programme — the Antarctic Circumnavigation Expedition (ACE).

We made an exhausting and exhilarating circumnavigation of Gabon's jewel of a national park, Loango.

Reminiscent of Paul Greengrass» equally - speculative conclusion to United 93, the tension snowballs in the final moments aboard Earhart's Lockheed L - 10 Electra, and in the communications room of the USS Itasca, off the coast of Howland Island — their final refuel stop in what would have been the first circumnavigation by airplane.

It also includes a look at the Sea Dogs of the era, and a look at Drakes circumnavigation of the world.

Its geological history has long transformed us - tremendous earthquakes, volcanoes, and tsunamis - but its human history, from a Western perspective, is quite young, beginning with Magellan's sixteenth - century circumnavigation.

Captain of Sea Dragon, Author of Loss at Sea: A Solo Circumnavigation Interview starts at 13:19 and ends at 36:18 «It's less difficult than it will seem at times.

It is one of the ironies of history that Flinders, who returned to the area in 1802 on his historic circumnavigation of the Australia, did not locate the Fraser Island Straits on either of his voyages.

Recounting his many crazy and death - defying experiences as a freelance correspondent for The Guardian and The Independent, Andrew Mueller's fearless circumnavigation of some of the world's most violent and politically shady places including Kosovo, Palestine, Libya, Sarajevo, Afghanistan and Iraq — as he grapples with «possibly the most maddening mystery of our time» — could have easily become a non-PC, jaded, samey «trouble tourism» recount.

, or a kayaking circumnavigation of Spring Island or nearby Aktis Island if the conditions are suitable.

It was a 12,000 km, 2 - week circumnavigation on the Indian Rail System for charity with 20 strangers.

Unique elements of Celebrity's 2013 - 14 winter destination offerings will include a 35 - night circumnavigation cruise of Australia and New Zealand, departing from Auckland, New Zealand in February 2014 and ending in Sydney, Australia in March 2014.

My wife, our child and myself will be doing this 15 month sailing circumnavigation... read more

They will complete a series of highly participatory, authentic and challenging cultural site - doing scavenges in ten secret countries over a 23 - day circumnavigation between April 14th and May 6th, 2017.

Dive profiles usually involve a quick descent to the base followed by a spiraling circumnavigation that may result with a sighting of the hammerhead sharks that sometimes frequent this formation.

And while many cycle tourists now compete to break records for the fastest circumnavigation of the globe by bicycle, others, like professional cyclist Ishbel Taromsari, are taking it slow, spending years in the saddle to not just see the world, but to experience their surroundings to the fullest.

Outside Magazine rates our Baja trip «Carmen Island Circumnavigation kayak trip» in Loreto Bay National Park «one of the 25 best trips of a lifetime» in 2002.

Popular activities in Antigua, from Stingray City to zip - lining adventures to safari land tours to cruises, sea circumnavigation and snorkelling tours are available once again following the impact of Hurricane Irma.

Summertime is a special season in Belize, not because the weather heats up (Belize enjoys great weather all year long) but because a special group of visitors arrives in the offshore waters as part of their annual circumnavigation of the globe.

Victory Cruise Lines reports that it will be able to resume circumnavigations of Cuba starting in early 2018.