Why did Google Maps have a big black smudge in the South Pacific before 2012? And why did it disappear? And what does it have to do with Captain Cook? And what is a phantom island? | Map Men
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Sweden's most popular tourist attraction, a 17th-century vessel that foundered minutes after launch, needs another financial rescue
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Capturing the spirit of ancient seafaring, the reconstructed Viking sailboat "Saga Farmann" has successfully completed an epic journey from Norway's Tønsberg to Istanbul
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Swedish maritime archaeologists have discovered the long-lost sister ship of the 17th-century warship Vasa
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Götheborg of Sweden – The world's largest wooden sailing ship
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The maintenance race
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Replica 18th century ship Götheborg of Sweden plans to re-sail the trading route from Sweden to China
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Two-metre-long sturgeon, a species today near extinction, has been found preserved in the pantry of a 500-year-old Danish royal shipwreck in the Baltic Sea
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Swedish maritime archaeologists have discovered two wrecks believed to be 17th-century warships – one of which is likely to be the sister ship of the Vasa
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Sixty years since rising from the deep – Swedish warship Vasa's preservation still a major challenge
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