The Northwest Passage can reduce shipping distance between London and Tokyo by about 3,780 nautical miles ... to create a reliable and detailed map of the geographical and seasonal shipping ...

In one passage, Galvaneus makes reference to rumors ... as evidenced by their detailed nautical charts from the fourteenth century. “It has long been noticed that the fourteenth-century portolan ...

The Northwest Passage can reduce shipping distance between London and Tokyo by about 3,780 nautical miles, or approximately 7,000 ... are insufficient to create a reliable and detailed map of the ...

Multihulls have redefined blue water cruising. Kate Ashe Leonard is living that dream in the Leeward Islands of French ...

For ships travelling between the east and west coasts of the United States, the canal reduces the journey by 8,000 nautical miles, avoiding the dangerous passage around Cape ... north, and northwest ...

In May 1845, one of England’s most storied naval officers, Sir John Franklin, launched an expedition to discover the Northwest Passage. Once thought to be ice-free, the legendary North Pole ...

Mark Synnott, an accomplished mountaineer and writer, decided it was a good time to refit his sailboat, the Polar Sun, and navigate the Northwest Passage—the icy arctic waterway that connects ...

Former UW president William Gerberding once referred to the Northwest as "this little civilized corner of the world," and I think he was right. The "spirit of place" (to borrow a phrase from D.

A woman with no nautical experience is currently on her ... with ancient giant sea turtles and crossing the Equator mid passage between Panama and the Galapagos Islands. The adventure has also ...

STONINGTON, Maine (AP) — Virginia Olsen has pulled lobsters from Maine’s chilly Atlantic waters for decades while watching threats to the state’s lifeblood industry mount. Trade imbalances ...

The demise of paper charts seems to have been greatly exaggerated after nautical cartographers Imray announced a new deal with Austrian company Freytag and Berndt securing the future of their paper ...