In late 1941, Captain Rick Leland (Humphrey Bogart) is court-martialled and discharged from the U.S. Coast Artillery after he is caught stealing.
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Kam Tong as T. Oki, the Japanese prince traveling incognito as Lorenz's servant
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Humorous description and sketches of Thor Heyerdahl’s 5,000-mile voyage on the Kon-Tiki raft across the Pacific Ocean from Peru to the Polynesian Islands.
His memoir, Dark Wind:: A Survivor’s Tale of Love and Loss (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1999) details the tragedy of their next voyage, which ended with Susan’s death in a typhoon in the Marshall Islands, halfway across the Pacific.
Accounts of the dramatic event were sent via ship across the Pacific to San Francisco and then sped by Pony Express across the American West.
Pacific Islands represents married women across the Pacific Island chain to include the Hawaiian Islands, Rotuma, the Midway Islands, American Samoa, Tonga, Tuvalu, the Cook Islands and Easter Island and is a part of the Mrs. United America Pageant.
A total of 20 United States Navy frigates were used across the Pacific for similar operations.
It is a matter of some contention whether it was this ship or Urdaneta's nao, the San Pedro, that was first to discover the path across the Pacific from the Philippines to New Spain.
It cannot swim over long distances, so is considered to be a significant marker of the human migrations across the Pacific, as the Polynesians accidentally or deliberately introduced it to the islands they settled.
A subset of Stone Age humans, including Ngaro Aborigines, developed ocean-worthy outrigger canoe technology, leading to an eastward migration across the Malay archipelago, across the Indian ocean to Madagascar and also across the Pacific Ocean, which required knowledge of the ocean currents, weather patterns, sailing, celestial navigation, and star maps.
(Maud Fontenoy rowed solo halfway across the Pacific in 2005, via a different route.)
It was a Spanish expedition that sailed from Seville in 1519 under the command of Ferdinand Magellan in search of a martime path from the Americas to the Far East across the Pacific Ocean.
The carrier group made subsequent port visits to Naples and Toulon, and instead of returning through the Suez Canal, transited through the Strait of Gibraltar into the Atlantic, and then past the Cape of Good Hope before continuing on to Perth, Australia for another port visit before continuing across the Pacific to its home port of San Diego.
He retreated across the Pacific, running into a storm that forced him to dock for repairs in Canton.
Departing Rio, Endeavour rounded Cape Horn and continued westward across the Pacific to reach Tahiti in April 1769.