The Treacherous Voyage Of The Swahili Sinbads | Journeys To The Ends Of The Earth

Adams makes the pilgrimage from Lalibela to Gondar in the northern wilds of Ethiopia, and paddles by papyrus kayak across lake Tana. His quest: to find the Ark of the Covenant.

Afghanistan is not so much a country as a series of shifting borders. This is the most militant Islamic state on Earth, but it was once peace loving and Buddhist. In the Bamiyan Valley north of Kabul the two largest statues of Buddha on the planet were carved in the third century. David Adams was the last Westerner to exhaustively film the Buddhas of Bamiyan before they were blown up in 2001.

When she set out on her first voyage to New York in 1845, SS Great Britain was the largest passenger ship ever built, and she would go on to transport over 30,000 people during her 41-year-working life. For most of that period, the ship carried emigrants between Liverpool and Melbourne on the notoriously testing Australia run - a non-stop sea journey that lasted anywhere between two to three months. Great Britain made this journey 32 times between 1852 and 1875, battling through all conditions with a combination of steam and sail power. But who were the passengers that embarked on such a gruelling voyage? What were their reasons for leaving home? And what was it really like to be a passenger on Brunel’s revolutionary ocean liner? Using original diaries from the passengers who sailed aboard SS Great Britain, History Hit presenters Luke Tomes (@histluketomes) and Louee Dessent (@loueedj) show you how a voyage across the world could look very different, depending on who you were and how much money you had… Whilst Louee enjoys a first class experience aboard SS

The 7th and least populous continent of earth, Antarctica, has always been something of an anomaly. It is supposed to be owned by no one and for everyone. Often used as a place for scientific research, 25 nations have bases and therefor a stake in the continent. What dodgy dealings have led to a quiet power struggle for control of the ice?

This is the story of the S.S. Ventnor, which left Wellington, New Zealand on October 26th, 1902, on a mission to return the bodies of 499 Chinese gold miners to their place of birth in Guangdong, China. The ill-fated ship tragically sank ten miles off the coast of Hokianga, in the north of New Zealand. According to Chinese beliefs, their souls are restless at the bottom of the sea.

The Wild Pacific - Gigantic Ocean Teeming With Life | Ocean Documentary The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest ocean on earth, bordering all other oceans. The Pacific Coast stretches across New Zealand, Australia, East Asia and the west coast of North and South America. On November 28, 1520, Ferdinand Magellan, coming from the Strait of Magellan, reached the Pacific Ocean on his circumnavigation of the world. He named it Mar Pacifico (Portuguese & Spanish for Peaceful Sea) because the storms that had accompanied him until then subsided. Despite this name, the Pacific also experiences violent storms and hurricanes. The Pacific Ocean lies between the Arctic to the north, North America to the northeast, Central America to the east, South America to the southeast, Antarctica to the south, Australia to the southwest, Oceania to the west, and Asia to the northwest. In the north it borders on the Arctic Ocean and in the southwest on the Indian Ocean and in the south on the Southern Ocean, which lies south of the 60th parallel. The Pacific Pole of Inaccessibility (Point