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...
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A clipper was a type of mid-19th-century merchant sailing vessel, designed for speed. The term was also retrospectively applied to the Baltimore clipper...
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Cape Horn (section Historic trade route)
the Netherlands. For decades, Cape Horn was a major milestone on the clipper route, by which sailing ships carried trade around the world. The waters around...
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Pan Am (redirect from Pan Am Clipper)
242 in 2023) round trip. This later became known as the Pan Am China Clipper route, from San Francisco, leading to Manila, Hong Kong, Shanghai. On August...
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1969 Sunday Times Golden Globe Race. Antarctic Circumpolar Current Clipper route Doldrums Antarctic oscillation Southerly buster Subtropical ridge Winds...
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simply as "the Cape". It is a waypoint on the Cape Route and the clipper route followed by clipper ships to the Far East and Australia, and still followed...
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voyaging due to the hazards they presented to shipping. The traditional clipper route followed the winds of the roaring forties south of the great capes....
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Hawaii Clipper (NC-14714) March 1936 Later the larger Boeing 314 Clipper flying boats were assigned to the route:[citation needed] Honolulu Clipper (NC-18601)...
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Brouwer Route was an extension of the Cape Route across the Indian Ocean to Indonesia. The Clipper Route is a route along the Roaring Forties between Europe...
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cape has been known to sailors as a major hazard on the traditional clipper route. It is sometimes regarded as one of the great capes. It was most commonly...
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