• Thumbnail for Jules Dumont d'Urville
    ISBN 0-8138-0305-5. (in French) Voyage au Pôle sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes "l'Astrolabe" et "la Zélée", exécuté par ordre du Roi pendant les années...
    42 KB (5,202 words) - 00:57, 23 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Franklin's lost expedition
    Franklin's lost expedition was a failed British voyage of Arctic exploration led by Captain Sir John Franklin that departed England in 1845 aboard two...
    124 KB (13,853 words) - 01:23, 15 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pytheas
    the Greek colony of Massalia (modern-day Marseille, France). He made a voyage of exploration to Northern Europe in about 325 BC, but his account of it...
    75 KB (9,894 words) - 09:00, 16 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for European and American voyages of scientific exploration
    Journal du voyage, La Condamine, 1751; Le procès des étoiles, 1735–71, ISBN 978-2-232-10176-2, 978-2-232-11862-3. Considered the first scientific voyage undertaken...
    84 KB (10,524 words) - 01:00, 16 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for SS Austria
    claiming the lives of 449 passengers and crew. The Austria was built by Caird & Co. of Greenock, Scotland and was launched on 23 June 1857. She was 318 ft...
    6 KB (501 words) - 19:53, 7 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Candide
    the musical were performed in versions prepared by Trevor Nunn and John Caird in 1999, and Mary Zimmerman in 2010. Candido, ovvero un sogno fatto in Sicilia [it]...
    93 KB (10,900 words) - 06:50, 8 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec
    of Brest. Kerguelen-Trémarec, Yves-Joseph (1796). Relation d'un Voyage dans la Mer du Nord. La Découvrance. ISBN 2-84265-129-4. Kerguelen-Trémarec, Yves-Joseph...
    5 KB (524 words) - 23:56, 22 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
    William Bligh), in 1916 Shackleton crossed Scotia Sea in the 7 m or 23' James Caird to reach South Georgia and organise the successful rescue of his expedition...
    38 KB (4,472 words) - 01:04, 27 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for HMS Fury (1814)
    Hoppner while Parry, in command of the expedition, moved to Hecla. This voyage was disastrous for Fury. She was damaged by ice at the start of the second...
    7 KB (614 words) - 13:51, 11 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Anthony de la Roché
    Lima: Mercurio. 111 p. Duperrey, Louis-Isidore. (1829). Voyage autour du Monde, executé per ordre du Roi, sur la Corvette La Coquille de sa Majesté, pendant...
    78 KB (7,777 words) - 20:26, 26 August 2024