We are still sailing north of the Aleutian Islands and experiencing a little swelling, if that's the right turn of phrase. Today we had talks on the artists who were either on Cook's Endeavour or The Beagle, with Charles Darwin onboard.
There was another lecture on Cook and the North-west Passage, and we were reminded that some of the space shuttles were named after his ships - the Endeavour and the Discovery. He was such a good navigator that some of his maps are still used in New Zealand!
The Bering Sea divides Eurasia from the Americas. It is named after Danish Vitus
Bering who, in 1728, working for the Russians, was the first European to
systematically explore the sea.
Could the Bering Sea be any more calm?
Tonight, we cross the International Date Line so there will be no blog entry for 23 September, it will jump to the 24 September. The plus side is that we only lose 23 hours as we get an extra hour's sleep.
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