The Splendid Waves of the 19th century paintings by Ivan Aivazovsky.
The painter Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky, in the nineteenth century, was the author of some of the most incredible paintings representing the sea. Of Russian-Armenian origin, he was one of the […]
Ile Sainte-Marie: Here lie the bones of pirates who terrorized the seas during the 17th and 18th centuries!
We are on the small island of Ile Sainte-Marie, off the coast of eastern Madagascar, where lie the bones of pirates who terrorized the seas during the 17th and 18th […]
Santa Cruz del Islote: the Island of the Caribbean with 105,000 inhabitants per Km²
Santa Cruz del Islote is a tiny coral island, one of the smallest in the San Bernardo archipelago, and it is located across from the Gulf of Morrosquillo in the […]
Live: High Water in Venice.
Venice sinks from when it was born because the sandy soils with time are compacted and are settled. The phenomenon is called subsidence. The subsidence became very fast in the […]
Tashirojima: a paradise for cat-lovers in Japan.
Tashirojima (田代島) is a small, rural island off the coast of central Ishinomaki City in Miyagi Prefecture. Informally known as “Cat Island”, It’s just over three kilometers long and It […]
Phare de Trézien
182 steps face visitors to this 37 meter high lighthouse, with a range of 23 miles. Built in 1894, it stands inland, 500 meters from the shore. Its white beam […]
Pontusval Lighthouse.
The savage beauty of the Pays Pagan coastline, known as “Shipwreck Shore”, has long been feared by sailors on account of its granite rocks, strong currents and the tradition sourronding […]
The Mysterious Greek Ship on the Coral Island of Kish.
Last week, a mysterious wreck appeared on the shores of Myanmar. But there is another story, which speaks of a more or less mysterious wreck, a massive ship landed in […]
Myanmar: a Ghost ship with no one on board runs aground on coast.
People, including authorities, are confused by this mysterious vessel but navy investigation suggests it was en route to Bangladesh to be scrapped. This is the mystery of a ghost ship, […]
Phare du Four
The Four channel runs along the end of the Léon and avoids the bypass west of the archipelago of Molène and Ouessant. Shortcut useful but dangerous, it was for a […]
Île Vierge: the highest lighthouse in Europe.
Île Vierge (Virgin Island) is located just 1.5km off the coast, to the north-east of the entrance to the Aber-Wrac’h. Different hypothesis are available about the name of this small […]
Madoc: the legend of the Prince of Wales who discovered America. True or false?
History books tells that the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus (1451-1506 AD) is the official discoverer of the New World. However, he has already been dethroned, in fact most historians now […]
Cancale, the Breton oyster capital.
“Comme un oiseau géant se garant des tempêtes au creux des rochers et des falaises hautes, Cancale se blottit, frileuse, au pied des côtes. ” Like a giant bird, guarding […]
Mary Celeste: the mistery of the Ghost Ship whose crew vanished into thin air.
On the causes of the disappearance of the crew and the abandonment of the Canadian brigantine Mary Celeste in 1872 every hypothesis was considered, from the most imaginative, to the […]
Mont Saint-Michel: a wonderful place, land of legends.
The abbey and surrounding town, located atop a solid single rock in the middle of a bay, was originally only accessible as the tides allowed. It is located less than […]
Phare d’Eckmühl, France. One of the tallest in the world.
The Eckmühl Lighthouse, is located in Penmarc’h, Finistère department, in Brittany region of France. With his height of 65 m, it is one of the tallest lighthouses in the world. […]
Cap Fréhel and its lighthouses.
Cap Fréhel is a peninsula in Côtes-d’Armor, in France, in the northern Brittany region, which extends from the Côte d’Émeraude to the Golfe de Saint-Malo. Despite no towns or villages […]
Cod: History of the Fish that changed the World
A fundamental and underrated chapter of the Human History is that which deals with the evolution of its diet and the importance that this evolution has had on historical events. […]
“Hy Brazil”: the History of the Legendary Island in the West of Ireland
Have you ever considered that Brazil could be found not in South America but in Northern Europe, off the coast of Ireland? Never? Yet, if you had consulted the maps […]
Why British Royal Navy Sailors Preferred Their Booze on Fire?
If today a flaming alcoholic drink is either the work of a skilled barman or a terrible mistake, just two centuries ago this ritual was commonplace among members of the […]
How the cat Simon earned a military medal.
For centuries, a close relationship of mutual esteem and affection has linked a category of rough men and accustomed to every danger, the sailors, to a small pet that today […]
The incredible story of Titanic Orphans.
It was the night of April 14, 1912, and RMS Titanic, the Ship of Dreams, was sinking. As we all know, nobody was spared from the terrible experience of dread […]
Octavius, the ghost ship and its frozen captain with a pen in hand.
The world is filled with a cornucopia of stories, misteries and legends, and when we read or listen these, we travel on a different dimensions. These stories, are food for […]
A new lava island was born to Hawaii, but only for a few days.
Hawaii’s ongoing eruption created new land, but only for a few days… Last week, a small new island was born. Yes, a real island, surrounded by water and smaller than […]
Mawson’s Huts: Frozen in times.
Lost on the edge of Cape Denison in Antarctica, there is a small group of huts that were built by Australian antarctic explorer Douglas Mawson in the early 20th century. […]
Serpent d’Océan: the 130 meter skeleton that emerges from the Nantes Coast.
It is called Serpent d’Océan, but is not the skeleton of an animal that actually existed, in fact it’s a sculpture located in Saint-Brévin-les-Pins, near Nantes, in correspondence with the […]
Batroun, Lebanon: one of the oldest cities in the world.
We are in Batroun, a coastal city in northern Lebanon, located 50 km north of Beirut and 30 km south of Tripoli. This is one of the oldest cities in […]
Anchors graveyard in Portugal…rust in peace!
The Cemetery of Anchors in Santa Luzia, Portugal, is surely a different place from the conventional touristic destinations. Here the dead anchors honor the victims of Portugal’s fishing industry. No […]
Bouvet Island, the most remote place of the world.
This place is known as “the loneliest place on earth,” in fact is an uninhabited frozen isle between South Africa and Antarctica and is the most remote island (and place) […]