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Castaway depot
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A castaway depot is a store or hut placed on an isolated island to provide emergency supplies and relief for castaways and victims of shipwrecks.
Castaway depot on Antipodes Island
Castaway depot on Antipodes Island
Captain Hooper of the New Zealand Government training ship Amokura with maritime cadets, penguins, and the castaway depot on the Bounty Islands, aroun
Captain Hooper of the New Zealand Government training ship Amokura with maritime cadets, penguins, and the castaway depot on the Bounty Islands, around 1910. Between 1907 and 1918 the cadets made annual excursions to the island groups to provide them with rough-weather experience. The depot was removed in 1927.
Clipper route
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The clipper route was derived from the Brouwer Route and was sailed by clipper ships between Europe and the Far East, Australia and New Zealand. The route, devised by the Dutch navigator Hendrik Brouwer in 1611, reduced the time of a voyage between The Netherlands and Java, in the Dutch East Indies, from almost 12 months to about six months, compared to the previous Arab and Portuguese monsoon route.
In the Age of Sail, the Brouwer Route reduced the time of a voyage from The Netherlands to the Dutch East Indies from almost 12 months to about six mo
In the Age of Sail, the Brouwer Route reduced the time of a voyage from The Netherlands to the Dutch East Indies from almost 12 months to about six months.
Unidentified sailing ship rounding Cape Horn
Unidentified sailing ship rounding Cape Horn
Garthneill
Garthneill