I am a Rock, I am an Island

Brita
Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean, Indian Ocean, Ocean Crossing, Pacific

Smack dab in the middle of the ocean, thousands of miles from land, there are islands you’ve probably never heard of. These islands don’t show up on a globe, and if you zoom out on google maps enough to see

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False Summits in Africa

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Africa, Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean

Five hundred years ago, before GPS and AIS, before paper charts and sextants, Portuguese and Dutch sailors were picking their way down the African coast looking for a waterway to the east. Bartolomeu Dias was the first to round the

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