Sentences with phrase «sailing routes»

Third, that the transatlantic sailing route for passenger steamships should be shifted so far south as to be entirely beyond the track of floating icebergs.»

Ships had been sailing this route from at least 3000 BC.

«Ideal sailing routes would have been created exactly when archaeologists think the island was colonised»

During this brief window, ideal sailing routes would have been created from the already populated south Austral Islands to Easter Island — exactly when many archaeologists think the island was colonised.

Uninhabited islands, pristine beach coves, authentic local cuisine and some of the best sailing routes in the world — these are just a few of the highlights on offer as small - group adventure operator, G Adventures, re-launches their sailing tours in the British Virgin Islands.

In 1874 the SS Victoria steam ship began regular sailings from Taupo to Tokaanu and a succession of other ships sailed this route until the 1920's.

The following articles capture our guests» unrivalled sense of freedom and possibility on board, combined with the irresistible invitation to retrace legendary sailing routes to historic and exotic destinations.

The significance of this passage is that it shows that the Norther Sea Route can be an economical alternative sailing route even for relatively low value cargoes as iron ore concentrate.

H.H Lamb lists nine measurable effects including «Increasing spread of the Arctic ice sea ice into all the northernmost Atlantic and around Greenland, forcing the abandonment of the old sailing routes to Greenland which had been used from about A.D 1000 to 1300.»

Bremerton is connected to Downtown Seattle by a 60 - minute ferry route, which carries both vehicles and walk - on passengers along a 17 - mile sailing route to Seattle.

In this work, we performed a computer simulation to follow the sailing routes of 1000 Viking voyages starting from Hernam (nowadays the Norwegian Bergen) along the 60 ° 21 ′ 55 ″ N latitude, which was the main sailing route of the Vikings to their settlement Hvarf in south Greenland.

The sailing route today allows us to follow part of Captain Cook's route up through the Whitsunday Islands.

Another major news outlet recently reported that one (1) Chinese - flagged ship has sailed the route this summer.