Ma r i t i M e tr i v i a
Lowtide
Medieval sea charts, called portolan The Statue of Liberty was a
charts, were used by sailors to navigate
By Br y a n He n r y
functioning lighthouse until 1902 and
along the Mediterranean coast in the
Amerigo Vespucci helped to outfit
was administered by the Lighthouse
13th century in Italy and Spain. Drawn
Columbus’ ships for his second voyage
Board.
on sheepskins, the charts had a mesh of
to the Americas.
crisscrossed lines that may have aided The first atomic-powered lighthouse,
sailors in finding their way from harbor
New Jersey was named for the
Baltimore Light in Maryland, was
to harbor. In Italian, their name means
English Channel island of Jersey.
activated May 20, 1964.
“written sailing directions”.
Plymouth Rock was named after
Before the advent of toilet paper,
The first map to show the vastness
Plymouth, England, from which Pilgrims
sailors used the frayed end of anchor
of the Pacific Ocean was made by the
departed on the Mayflower in September
ropes.
king of Spain’s cartographer in 1529.
1620.
He took much of his information from Blue and green have traditionally
the survivors of Ferdinand Magellan’s
The Caribbean Sea is derived from
been bad-luck colors to paint a boat.
around-the-world voyage.
the same root as “cannibal”.
These being the primary colors of the
sea, using them is considered an affront
Amerigo Vespucci was Pilot Major
The Bounty Islands in the South
to it.
of Spain, responsible for supervising
Pacific were named by Captain William
and updating Spain’s official maps and
Bligh.
The phrase “square weal” derived
charts. from Royal Navy galleries, where meals
Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, was
were served on square wooden plates.
Vespucci evolved a system for
designated the nation’s first national
computing nearly exact longitude and
seashore in 1937.
Footloose comes from sailing. The
arrived at a figure for the Earth’s equatorial bottom portion of a sail is called the foot.
circumference that was only 50 miles
Guam is known as the Pearl of the
If not secured, it is footloose and dances
short of the correct measurement.
Pacific.
randomly, or wildly, in the wind.
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