Sentences with phrase «sail channel islands»

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When he sailed past Fraser Island his ships log states that he was 2 leagues, (about 11 kilometres), off the land and at that distance his lookout would have been unable to spot the narrow channel at the southern end of Fraser Island which separates it from the mainland.

The Spanish explorer Sebastian Vizcaino sailed through the channel between Santa Barbara and the Channel Islands in December of 1602.

He is accused of sailing a 10 - foot inflatable boat last year across the channel to Anacapa Island, which actually is three small islands, to distribute pellets containing vitamin K to the rat population.

Also, apparently the Vikings could sail directly to what is now the W. shore of Greenland by going through the channels of the archipelago that the southern tip of Greenland consisted of — no such islands are evident now, as they are covered by the ice cap.