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Forgotten at Home, Hong Kong’s Iconic Junks Sail on in Foreign Waters

  • by Ryan Ho Kilpatrick
  • Posted on December 5, 2018
  • Islands

Hong Kong’s Outcast Islands

  • by Ryan Ho Kilpatrick
  • Posted on August 21, 2018
  • Islands

Hong Kong’s Disappearing Islands

  • by Ryan Ho Kilpatrick
  • Posted on August 1, 2018
  • Islands

On the Far Edge of Hong Kong, Unexpectedly Thriving Coral Reefs

  • by Ryan Ho Kilpatrick
  • Posted on July 4, 2018July 4, 2018
  • Eurasians

No Mixed Blood, No Mixed Bones

  • by Ryan Ho Kilpatrick
  • Posted on June 8, 2018
  • Marine conservation

There’s Something Fishy About China’s Salmon

  • by Ryan Ho Kilpatrick
  • Posted on May 30, 2018June 8, 2018
  • Marine conservation

Pressure Mounts to Take Blue Shark Off the Menu

  • by Ryan Ho Kilpatrick
  • Posted on May 24, 2018May 24, 2018

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Portsmouth Historic Dockyard is like Disneyland for maritime archaeologists and historians, from the world’s first ironclad HMS Warrior (fig. 1) to the masterfully recovered wreck of Henry VIII’s carrack Mary Rose (figs. 2,3), the fore topsail of HMS Victory from the Battle of Trafalgar (fig. 4) and of course Nelson’s flagship itself, the oldest commissioned warship in the world (figs 5, 6, 7).
Postcards from Vienna
A very merry Crimbo to all from the chateaux, chalets and slopes of the Swiss Alps.
“The waters were placid; all around was calm; and the snowy mountains, ‘the palaces of nature,’ were not changed... when troubled by the winds, their tumult is but the play of a lively infant, when compared to the roarings of the giant ocean.” Channelling Shelley as storm clouds hang over Lake Geneva like ash spewed from Mount Tambora.
Manoel Island is named after the Portuguese Grand Master of the Knights of Malta António Manoel de Vilhena. In the 1720s, Manoel built a fort here (right) to make the capital Valletta “all the more impregnable in the face of infidel onslaughts.” The fortifications joined a lazaretto (left)—a quarantine facility cum hospital—that had operated on the island since the plague first hit its shores in the mid-17th century. As the name of their order suggests, the Knights Hospitaller who then ruled the Maltese archipelago were renowned for their medical expertise, having been founded to tend to sick or injured pilgrims in the Holy Land, so a clean bill of health from the Manoel Island lazaretto meant you were welcome in any Mediterranean harbour. Even after the Knights were expelled from Malta by Napoleon in 1798 and a subsequent uprising against the French saw Britain invited to govern the islands, Malta retained this reputation and the lazaretto served as a military hospital during the Crimean War. Lord Byron, Sir Walter Scott and Benjamin Disraeli are just a few of the illustrious patients to have been treated at the facility, which also served as a submarine base in WWII. Besides the remains of both the fort and the lazaretto, Manoel Island is today home to an extensive yacht marina and boatyard, and a sanctuary for ducks and other waterfowl.
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