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Columbus set sail from Europe ... which is north of the equator ... and I'm pretty sure he never crossed it.
If you leave Portland harbor and sail due south, you'll run aground in the Dominican Republic.
Captain Cook was the first European to cross the Antarctic Circle. But he most likely did not sail to the south pole, because the pole is a good 300 miles from the nearest ocean, and probably more than 1,000 miles from the nearest water that's not permanently frozen.
Portugal developed a route to Asia while still exploring Africa. Portuguese-sponsored explorer Vasco de Gama was the first person to sail around the southern tip of Africa, proving that it was possible to sail from Europe to Asia around the African land mass.
If you were to sail from Cape Town in South Africa to Perth in Australia, it would take 7 days, 20 hours. The distance is 5,412 miles.
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Approx 9-10 weeks it takes three and a half weeks to sail to Suez from the south coast of England which is approx 4 days from Scotland.
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Try looking at a map and you'll see that Johannesburg is about 500 miles from the nearest coast!!
Mahatma Gandhi sailed from India to South Africa in 1893, and the journey took approximately 28 days. He embarked on the ship "SS Truro" from Bombay (now Mumbai) and arrived in Durban, South Africa. This trip marked the beginning of his significant involvement in civil rights activism in South Africa.
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A month or two.