Theme: navigation
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Bad Season Exploration
It was then the bad season in Australia, the July of that zone corresponding to our January in Europe, but the sea was beautiful and easily scanned ro...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Strategic Navigation
In going to Shanghai we should not be forced to sail wide of the Chinese coast, which would be a great advantage, as the currents run northward, and w...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Gibraltar Currents
On the 18th of February, about three o’clock in the morning, we were at the entrance of the Straits of Gibraltar. There once existed two currents: an ...