Sentences with phrase «northerly routes»

My guess is that on the North Atlantic, where most of the shipping was concentrated, they followed more northerly routes.

The response that could be quickly mustered in these protected waters would likewise outstrip anything the northerly route could offer.

He had the instinct on the first leg (from Charleston, South Carolina, to Cape Town, South Africa) to stay on a northerly route before heading east because the Caribbean's trade winds to the south would have slowed his progress.

The trip to Bechers Bay from the Ventura Harbor takes approximately two hours if the boat takes the northerly route, two hours and 15 minutes via the smoother and preferred southern route.

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The legendary limits of the Terra Australis of ancient and medieval cartographers, whose northerly coast was represented in art in the time of Ptolemy as extending eastward from Southern Africa toward China and inclosing the Indian Ocean, began to recede to the southward on the map of the world in the generation which produced Columbus, da Gama, and Magellan and disclosed America, the route to the Indies, and the circumnavigation of the globe.

That's made the remaining icepack more unstable, and could mean that even as more northerly shipping routes open up, other shipping lanes normally free of heavy ice could be clogged (at least until all the ice melts).