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The Dutch East India Company founded the Dutch Cape Colony as a layover port on the way to the Dutch East Indies. The 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 and Australia.
Her time along the clipper route of 71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes, and 33 seconds was the fastest ever circumnavigation of the world by a single-hander. [21] While this record still leaves MacArthur as the fastest female singlehanded circumnavigator, in 2008, Francis Joyon eclipsed the record in a trimaran with a time of 57 days, 13 hours, 34 ...
A map illustrating various definitions of the boundaries between Asia and Europe [69] A physical map of Europe from 1880, depicting the entirety of the Caucasus as part of the European continent. [70]
Satellite image of Europe by night 1916 physical map of Europe Topography of Europe. Some geographical texts refer to a Eurasian continent given that Europe is not surrounded by sea and its southeastern border has always been variously defined for centuries. In terms of shape, Europe is a collection of connected peninsulas and nearby
This was the first time an Airbus A380 flew nonstop between Australia and Europe. [ 64 ] In November 2021, Qantas resumed non-stop Kangaroo Route flights, this time from Darwin to London [ 65 ] before resuming the non-stop route between Perth and London in May 2022 following the reopening of Western Australia for international travel.
The Indian plate (or India plate) is a minor tectonic plate straddling the equator in the Eastern Hemisphere. Originally a part of the ancient continent of Gondwana , the Indian plate broke away from the other fragments of Gondwana 100 million years ago and began moving north, carrying Insular India with it. [ 2 ]
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east. Europe shares the landmass of Eurasia with Asia, and of Afro-Eurasia with both Africa and Asia.
Despite the strait's difficult waters, it provided a safer and less boisterous [clarification needed] passage for ships on the route from Europe or India to Sydney in the early 19th century. The strait also saved 1,300 km (700 nmi) on the voyage.