"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: "One Hundred Years of Solitude"
To say nothing of overland and air routes. Truly an era of globalization. I wonder how much of the stuff that is shipped improves the world, and how much is junk that wastes natural resources.
This quite striking map reminds me of pictures we used to make in elementary school. Color a piece of paper all over with different patches of color, then use a black crayon to cover the entire thing. Finally. scratch through the black coating to make a colorful picture in which the top layer becomes a black background. --Jim
Jim: I think that I prefer shipping to air freight from an ecological point of view although I can't support that statistically. I also remember the black-covered colouring thing from school days (loooong ago!)
Lots of good things have come our way thru those shipping routes, then there were others like Stink bugs and Spotted Lantern flies that hitched a ride and caused havoc.
Hi Bazza - did you see the largest container ship arrive at Deptford this week ... I worry about the damage to the seas with these, and other things ... sadly though we need to get our goodies don't we. Also the other unnecessaries carried with them ... interesting map though ... all the best - Hilary
Do these patterns cover all types of shipping - passenger, naval and trade?
When Europeans migrated to South Africa, Australasia and South America between 1900-1950s, they would have travelled very differently from ships carrying live sheep to the middle east. I would never travel by air, if I had a choice - shipping trips are far more pleasurable.
Arleen: Ooo, I don't think we've had the pleasure of those visitors in the UK! As an island the UK has some protection from those kind of things but it's never absolute. Of course, in the days prior to air flight, Great Britain built the world's largest navy and 'ruled the waves' for many years and shipping is in our national DNA!
Hilary: Yes I saw that. I think the oceans are big enough to cope! We are of course dependent on many imports as we are less of a manufacturing nation now, having largely turned to service industries.
Hels: I would guess that the map shows all commercial and passenger shipping including cruise liners but not pleasure boats. I too, prefer ships to planes but rail best of all. And now with the Channel Tunnel, Europe and beyond lies waiting (or it should have been....)
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To say nothing of overland and air routes. Truly an era of globalization. I wonder how much of the stuff that is shipped improves the world, and how much is junk that wastes natural resources.
This quite striking map reminds me of pictures we used to make in elementary school. Color a piece of paper all over with different patches of color, then use a black crayon to cover the entire thing. Finally. scratch through the black coating to make a colorful picture in which the top layer becomes a black background.
--Jim
Jim: I think that I prefer shipping to air freight from an ecological point of view although I can't support that statistically.
I also remember the black-covered colouring thing from school days (loooong ago!)
Lots of good things have come our way thru those shipping routes, then there were others like Stink bugs and Spotted Lantern flies that hitched a ride and caused havoc.
Hi Bazza - did you see the largest container ship arrive at Deptford this week ... I worry about the damage to the seas with these, and other things ... sadly though we need to get our goodies don't we. Also the other unnecessaries carried with them ... interesting map though ... all the best - Hilary
Do these patterns cover all types of shipping - passenger, naval and trade?
When Europeans migrated to South Africa, Australasia and South America between 1900-1950s, they would have travelled very differently from ships carrying live sheep to the middle east. I would never travel by air, if I had a choice - shipping trips are far more pleasurable.
Arleen: Ooo, I don't think we've had the pleasure of those visitors in the UK! As an island the UK has some protection from those kind of things but it's never absolute. Of course, in the days prior to air flight, Great Britain built the world's largest navy and 'ruled the waves' for many years and shipping is in our national DNA!
Hilary: Yes I saw that. I think the oceans are big enough to cope! We are of course dependent on many imports as we are less of a manufacturing nation now, having largely turned to service industries.
Hels: I would guess that the map shows all commercial and passenger shipping including cruise liners but not pleasure boats. I too, prefer ships to planes but rail best of all. And now with the Channel Tunnel, Europe and beyond lies waiting (or it should have been....)
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