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Malacca Strait

Two thousand years of history in the Malacca Strait, told by the ships that passed through.

Recent Posts:

Piri Reis 1513 World Map

Tragic Lost Maps No. 2: The Piri Reis World Map 1513

The story of the glorious Piri Reis World Map of 1513, only a small section of which remains.

Tragic Lost Maps No.1

The lost ‘Javanese Map’ of 1511

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Passage on a Galleon

climb aboard a seventeenth century Spanish galleon on a run through the North Sea

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World’s richest shipwreck?

The story of the Portuguese treasure ship Flor de la Mar