Captains Quote by Robert Ballard

I have a relationship with the southern hemisphere that's a really good one. I love it there.

— Laurence Fishburne

“Captain James Cook's ship, The Endeavour, hit a coral outcrop in the Great Barrier Reef in 1770. Cook and his crew camped in what…

— Julie Murphy

I don't know everything about the Southern Hemisphere, but if you're fans of something as bad as Vegemite, we must have similar interests.

— Grumpy Cat

“If you want to see what my Earthsea looks like, you could sail past the Scilly Isles (handy for you Brits); or you could…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events…

— Umberto Eco

The oceans are pretty unexplored places and the final frontier on our planet; also because they're the source of life. There are dramatic things…

— Peter Sarsgaard

Historically, maritime travelers had to pass around the entire mass of North and South America, including the bottom tip, the tempestuous Cape Horn, which…

— Alan Huffman

I'm nuts about the South - the people, the language, the food, the land, the stories and writers that come from there - but…

— Elizabeth Berg

One might almost say that the history of geographical discovery, properly so called, begins with Captain Cook, the motive of whose voyages was purely…

— Joseph Jacobs

These days there seems to be nowhere left to explore, at least on the land area of the Earth. Victims of their very success,…

— Carl Sagan

To discover new continents, you must be willing to lose sight of the shore.

— Brian Tracy

But unless some great revolution in nature modifies the present relative level between land and sea, it may safely be maintained that the present…

— Louis Agassiz