Azuhura Msofe
8B
18/5/10
Humanities – Route of the Voyage
Miss Nickell
We were travailing North West up to Charleston Harbor; to be more specific we
were travailing 32 degrees north and 79 degrees west, from Turneffe Islands,
(“Blackbeard.”),
which are 17 degrees north and 87 degrees West. We have to go North
on the latitude lines, up to Cuba. Where the wind trades would be against us because
we are going northwest and we would encounter the Northeast trades. Then we would
have to go West of Cuba on the longitude lines, until we hit The Bahamas. The winds
would still be against us because we would still be on the Northeast trades.
From the Bahamas we must maneuver our way around Nassau using the Gulf Stream
current because the winds will be in our favor going Westerlies. The winds will be
behind us making our journey shorter. But if we miscalculation (which we have done
before,) and we may have to go South West. Then use the North Equatorial current to
get us North East of the Caribbean Islands so that we use the Volla maneuver
("Predominant Winds and Explorers' Routes."),
and ride the Gulf Stream current which is
dangerous because the winds are going against us. We would have the Westerlies
trades going against us. The winds would be coming from the side and we only have 3
triangle lateen sails making the journey longer than what would have been expected.
I hope we don’t get there in winter. South Carolina is a strangle place. It’s divided
up into 3 lands, biomes; coastal, Urban and Mountains. Each biome gets its own
weather. My scrivener told me that a biome is, “A major regional or global biotic
community, such as a grassland or desert, characterized chiefly by the dominant forms
of plant life and the prevailing climate.” (“Biomes.”) I am going to be on the Coastal side
therefore I get humid subtropical weather conditions. It is also geography flat and plain.
Key notes to myself
I guess fishing in South Carolina is out because I am in the coastal area and
there is only salt water. But would those fishes be great because they are really
naturally salted. Yumm! Also it would never go bad because we salt our food to stop it
from rotting, if the food is already salted then it would never go bad. It would so save
money in the food department because I no longer need to buy that much salt.
Map of ocean currents
Map of trade winds
Map of The United States of America climate zones
South Carolina.
As the map
shows South
Carolina has a
“Humid
Subtropical
climate.”
Bibliography
"Biomes." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition.
Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. 23 May. 2010.
<http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/biomes>.
"Blackbeard." Elizabethan Era. N.p., 18 May 2010. Web. 18 May 2010.
<http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/blackbeard.htm>.
"Predominant Winds and Explorers' Routes." The European Voyages of Exploration.
The Unversity of Calgary, 23 May 2010. Web. 23 May 2010.
<http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/map.html>.
Wildlife of North Carolina. Wikimedia Foundation Inc., 10 May 2010. Web. 18 May
2010. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_of_North_Carolina>.
Appendix
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