It's named after Sir Francis Drake, who is thought to have been the first to pass through the Magellan Strait and into the Pacific Ocean in 1578 ... the up to 48-hour crossing being part ...
“The most dreaded bit of ocean on the globe – and ... from seasickness she says. “The Pacific has very long, slow swells, Channel crossings (between the UK and France) have quite a bouncy ...
This story appears in the July 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Settling the islands of the Pacific Ocean was one of the greatest maritime adventures in human history. Some 3,400 years ...
As the sun sets over Europe, it will soon rise under Australia, where the trimaran is currently sailing ... Indian and that they are now in the Pacific Ocean, which, in these latitudes, is ...
An 83-year-old Japanese adventurer intends to set the world record for the oldest person to sail solo nonstop across the Pacific Ocean on a yacht. Kenichi Horie on Nov. 24 announced his plan to ...
Octogenarian adventurer Kenichi Horie returned to Japan early June 4, making him the world’s oldest person to complete a solo, nonstop 8,500-kilometer voyage across the Pacific Ocean in a yacht.