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• Sailing Directions — is a 47 volume American navigation publication published by the Defense Mapping Agency Hydrographic/Topographic Center. Sailing Directions consists of 37 Enroute volumes and 10 Planning Guides. Planning Guides describe general features of ocean… …   Wikipedia

• Sailing in Anguilla — has a long and deep history, and is one of the defining characteristics of the island. The history of Anguillian sailing is often indistinguishable from the history of the island itself. Sailing craft date back to the Taino and Arawak peoples who …   Wikipedia

• Sailing stones — A sailing stone in Racetrack Playa. Sailing stones, sliding rocks, and moving rocks all refer to a geological phenomenon where rocks move in long tracks along a smooth valley floor without human or animal intervention. They have been recorded and …   Wikipedia

• Mast (sailing) — Sails on a small ship as seen from below The mast of a sailing vessel is a tall, vertical, or near vertical, spar, or arrangement of spars, which supports the sails. Large ships have several masts, with the size and configuration depending on the …   Wikipedia

• List of HSC ferry routes — This is a List of high speed craft ferry routes. Many routes are operated by catamarans, as catamarans are a faster craft than a similar sized monohulls. In the 1990s monohull HSCs with capacity for cars and busses have taken over many routes.… …   Wikipedia

• Cape Horn — Cabo de Hornos redirects here, for the Chilean commune see Cabo de Hornos, Chile. Cape Horn island (Dutch: Kaap Hoorn ; Spanish: Cabo de Hornos ; named after the city of Hoorn in the Netherlands) is the southernmost headland of the Tierra del… …   Wikipedia

• California Gold Rush — The California Gold Rush (1848 ndash;1855) began on January 24, 1848, when gold was discovered by James Marshall at Sutter s Mill in Coloma, California. [E] vents from January 1848 through December 1855 [are] generally acknowledged as the Gold… …   Wikipedia

• western Africa, history of — Introduction       history of the region from the 11th century to the present.       A reasonable body of sources for the writing of western African history begins to be available about AD 1000. Three centuries earlier, the Arabs (Arab) had… …   Universalium

• Bengal, Bay of — Part of the Indian Ocean. Occupying about 839,000 sq mi (2,172,000 sq km), it is bordered by Sri Lanka, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and the northern Malay Peninsula. It is about 1,000 mi (1,600 km) wide, with an average depth of more than 8,500… …   Universalium

• Antigua — This article is about the island. For more detailed information on Antigua as a political entity, see Antigua and Barbuda. For other places named Antigua, see Antigua (disambiguation). For British Royal Navy ships, see HMS Antigua. Antigua Native …   Wikipedia

• Nathaniel Palmer — Nathaniel Brown Palmer Born August 8, 1799(1799 08 08) Stonington, Connecticut Died June 21, 1877( …   Wikipedia