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Tinkerbelle is a 13.5-foot (4.1 m) sailboat in which 47-year-old newspaperman Robert Manry, a copy editor at the Cleveland Plain Dealer, single-handedly crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1965. At the time, it was the shortest but not the smallest boat to cross the Atlantic nonstop (till today [when?] the smallest is Lindemann's folding kayak). [1]
In 1870, the small City of Ragusa of Liverpool became the first small lifeboat to cross the Atlantic from Queenstown, County Cork to Boston with two crew, John Charles Buckley and Nikola Primorac (di Costa). [10] In 1896, Frank Samuelsen and George Harbo from Norway became the first people known to ever row across the Atlantic Ocean. [11]
Born. ( 1931-11-13) November 13, 1931 (age 92) Florida. Nationality. American. Known for. Sailing single-handed across the Atlantic Ocean in two tiny sailboats. Hugo Vihlen (born November 13, 1931) [ 1] is a single-handed sailor who set world records by crossing the Atlantic Ocean in two tiny sailboats in 1968 and 1993.
Makka Pakka (played by Justyn Towler) is a beige, small, cute, doll-like creature. He has three rounded protuberances on his head, ears and tail to represent stones that he uses to make piles. He lives in a rock cave and likes cleaning things, such as his collection of stacking stones and the other characters' faces.
The Arctic Ocean is the smallest and shallowest of the world's five oceanic divisions. [ 1 ] It spans an area of approximately 14,060,000 km 2 (5,430,000 sq mi) and is the coldest of the world's oceans. The International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) recognizes it as an ocean, although some oceanographers call it the Arctic Mediterranean Sea ...
Hannes Lindemann (28 December 1922 – 17 April 2015) was a German doctor, navigator and sailor. [1] [2] He made two solo transatlantic crossings, one in a sailing dugout canoe made while working in Liberia and the second in a 17-foot Klepper Aerius II double folding kayak, modified to carry two masts and an outrigger. [3]
Panthalassa, also known as the Panthalassic Ocean or Panthalassan Ocean (from Greek πᾶν "all" and θάλασσα "sea"), [1] was the vast superocean that encompassed planet Earth and surrounded the supercontinent Pangaea, the latest in a series of supercontinents in the history of Earth.
The Bering Strait (Russian: Берингов пролив, romanized: Beringov proliv) is a strait between the Pacific and Arctic oceans, separating the Chukchi Peninsula of the Russian Far East from the Seward Peninsula of Alaska. The present Russia - United States maritime boundary is at 168° 58' 37" W longitude, slightly south of the Arctic ...