Alone to Antarctica in Ice Bird
In 1974 Dr. David Lewis was awarded the Institute's Gold Medal for his work on indigenous navigation methods in the Pacific, and his many remarkable feats of practical navigation. The following account is of perhaps the most remarkable of his voyages which was an attempt to circumnavigate the A...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0373463300041229 2024-03-03T08:38:27+00:00 Alone to Antarctica in Ice Bird Lewis, David 1975 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0373463300041229 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0373463300041229 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Journal of Navigation volume 28, issue 3, page 313-327 ISSN 0373-4633 1469-7785 Ocean Engineering Oceanography journal-article 1975 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0373463300041229 2024-02-08T08:38:27Z In 1974 Dr. David Lewis was awarded the Institute's Gold Medal for his work on indigenous navigation methods in the Pacific, and his many remarkable feats of practical navigation. The following account is of perhaps the most remarkable of his voyages which was an attempt to circumnavigate the Antarctic Continent on his own. The first part of the voyage, which culminated in January 1973, was mentioned in the formal citation for the award; the second part, which is every bit as remarkable, finished in Capetown in March 1974. No one had ever sailed single-handed through the Southern Ocean to any part of the Antarctic continent, not even by way of Drake Passage from Tierra del Fuego, which involves a crossing of only about 400 miles of open sea. Since the sole practicable Antarctic landfall for a small vessel is the Antarctic Peninsula (formerly Graham Land) below Cape Horn, Australia, some 6000 miles to the west, was a far from ideal starting point. However, this was where I was working so that there was no alternative but to make Sydney the point of departure. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula Antarctica Drake Passage Graham Land Southern Ocean Tierra del Fuego Cambridge University Press Antarctic Southern Ocean The Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula Drake Passage Pacific Graham Land ENVELOPE(-63.500,-63.500,-66.000,-66.000) Cape Horn ENVELOPE(-135.021,-135.021,61.583,61.583) Journal of Navigation 28 3 313 327 |
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In 1974 Dr. David Lewis was awarded the Institute's Gold Medal for his work on indigenous navigation methods in the Pacific, and his many remarkable feats of practical navigation. The following account is of perhaps the most remarkable of his voyages which was an attempt to circumnavigate the Antarctic Continent on his own. The first part of the voyage, which culminated in January 1973, was mentioned in the formal citation for the award; the second part, which is every bit as remarkable, finished in Capetown in March 1974. No one had ever sailed single-handed through the Southern Ocean to any part of the Antarctic continent, not even by way of Drake Passage from Tierra del Fuego, which involves a crossing of only about 400 miles of open sea. Since the sole practicable Antarctic landfall for a small vessel is the Antarctic Peninsula (formerly Graham Land) below Cape Horn, Australia, some 6000 miles to the west, was a far from ideal starting point. However, this was where I was working so that there was no alternative but to make Sydney the point of departure. |
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Antarc* Antarctic Antarctic Peninsula Antarctica Drake Passage Graham Land Southern Ocean Tierra del Fuego |
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