Re: “Maritime Museum's smaller stage,” column, May 29. As a sailor and an admirer of the navigational skills and accomplishments of captains Cook and Vancouver, I enjoyed Robert Amos’s column on the ...
Each year, Bogong moths in Australia embark on a 620-mile journey to escape the summer heat by retreating to cool alpine caves. These nocturnal insects then return home to breed and die, completing a ...
Bert terHart set sail from Victoria, B.C., on a solo journey around the world nine months ago with just a pen, paper, charts and a sextant navigation instrument to chart his course. The non-stop ...
Several 5000-year-old temples in Malta seem to have been oriented towards specific stars, suggesting the temples could have been schools for celestial navigation. Ancient people constructed seven ...