Ponant and Smithsonian Journeys' cruise to Panama and Costa Rica infused leisure with education. Why travelers should choose ...

You’re sailing due west on the Pacific Ocean, around 325 nautical miles from the Galapagos, under clear blue skies. Then, one ...

Larissa and Duncan are sailing around the world with their two kids to spot wildlife and collect vital ocean data. View on ...

This story appears in the July 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Settling the islands of the Pacific Ocean was one of the greatest maritime adventures in human history. Some 3,400 years ...

Octogenarian adventurer Kenichi Horie returned to Japan early June 4, making him the world’s oldest person to complete a solo, nonstop 8,500-kilometer voyage across the Pacific Ocean in a yacht.

There was no need for any more violence in the Pacific Ocean. But on August 21 ... It was also the last battle between two ships under sail. And the last fight where an American crew would ...

While most of us were fast asleep last night, two determined officers reached a point on Earth where the closest humans were ...

An 83-year-old Japanese adventurer intends to set the world record for the oldest person to sail solo nonstop across the Pacific Ocean on a yacht. Kenichi Horie on Nov. 24 announced his plan to ...

The people of the Pacific are intimately tied to the ocean. They sailed the sea hundreds ... As an island became overpopulated, navigators were sent out to sail uncharted seas to find undiscovered ...