Castaway Depot
Shipping in the subantarctic
The Clipper Route followed by ships sailing between England and Australia/New Zealand
During the 19th and early 20th centuries, the standard trade clipper route from Australia and New Zealand to Europe took a line-of-latitude route in the Southern Ocean. Ships would drop below the Roaring Forties (40S latitudes) to make use of the prevailing westerlies which carried them around Cape Horn. These winds could be strong and the waters
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