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  BBC - h2g2 - Overland Challenge - Week Thirteen
My thighs no longer ache, my throat is not so sore.
Anticipating the cold, I was wearing - a thermal vest, shirt, poloneck sweater, my new fleece jacket, full winterised flying type overall, my down ski-type jacket, 2 pairs of thick socks, Sorrel (heaviest grade) boots, long johns, padded trousers (that overall), neck warmer, two balaclavas, two hats, and goggles.
Calls to the UK and a pain in my big toe requiring antibiotics from Doc were the highlights of the morning.
www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A759864   (2426 words)

  
 Progress Reports
We rounded Cape Dezhneva, the most easterly point in Asia, last Friday night, not that we saw much of it through the fog.
Mys Schmidt was grand for the first day, pretty broken down as it is. The military have gone, leaving behind a town in decay, and a much depleted population.
Though there are some grand people, the landlady of the 'gastanitza' where we had a dinner on Monday night, the 3 lads up from Omsk doing some building work had a lovely Russian sound to their singing.
www.northabout.com /Prog04/pr6.html   (832 words)

  
 Sea Kayaker - Chukchi Peninsula
The base was located at the apex of a triangular spit of land that in places was no more than 150 yards wide, and that stretched seven miles in each direction.
We took advantage of the conditions and did an 11-mile crossing across a bay at the southern end of Mys Dezhneva.
My guess was that he meant to say that they were drinking vodka.
www.seakayakermag.com /1999/dec99/chukchi_01.htm   (5027 words)

  
 Discoverers Web: Dezhnev   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Having then continued southwest (to the region of Cape Chaplina), Dezhnev and 25 crew were shipwrecked on the coast (Oct 1648), while Alexeyev was separated by the storm and never seen again.
In 1898 the easternmost point of Asia was named Mys Dezhneva in his honour.
The voyage of Semen Dezhnev in 1648: Bering's precursor
www.win.tue.nl /~engels/discovery/dezhnev.html   (462 words)

  
 The Mapping of the Earth
This meridian marked the edge of Our Quarter of the northern hemisphere, which begins at the east on meridian 100°04’E, the meridian of the peninsula Malay and the intersection of the Equator with the coast of the island of Sumatra.
The next quarter, which includes China, ends where parallel 63°00'N intersects meridian 170°04'W, at Lawrence Island, marking the meridian of the extreme limit of Asia on the Bering Strait (Mys Dezhneva: 66°01'N, 169°43’ W).
To the west of meridian 10°04’E there begins a different quarter of the world which ends at meridian 80°04'W, the meridian on which there begins the mass of North America at Palm Beach, Florida, the meridian of the Isthmus of Panama and of the intersection of the Equator with the western coast of South America.
www.metrum.org /mapping/mapping.htm   (1877 words)

  
 NOAA Nautical Charts from Omni Resources - International Map & Guidebook Specialists.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
NOAA-96012 Sea of Japan to Sea of Okhotsk.
NOAA-96140 Mys Peschanyy and Mys Lamanon to Mys….
NOAA-96181 Plan on the West Coast of Ostrov Sakhalin.
www.omnimap.com /catalog/nautical/noaa-9.htm   (531 words)

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