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Harvard historian Morison leads Columbus voyage reenactment
Professor Samuel Eliot Morison of Harvard launches the Capitana and the Mary Otis for a voyage retracing Columbus first and fourth voyages. The expedition, from Oyster Bay to the Azores and Canary Islands, aims to study navigational routes, identify American lands touched, and photograph coastlines with a 300-volume Columbiana library aboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmo Scott Watson
Union
Christopher Columbus
America
Samuel Eliot Morison
Harvard University
Institution of Higher Learning
Harvard
Lesser Antilles
Haiti
Navidad
New World
San Lucar de Barrameda
Columbus
Mary Otis
Guadalquivir
Seville
Indies
Cordova
Ferdinand
Isabella
Porto Santo
Madeira
Fuchal
Canaries
San Sebastian
Gomera
Canary Islands
Professor Morison
Azores
Portland
Maine
William D. Stevens
United States Navy
Flores
Capitana
Santa Maria
Nina
Little Chapel
Lisbon
Trinidad
Three Hills
Port of Spain
Curacoa
Cartagena
Central American
Honduras
Terra Firma
Santa Maria de Berem
Pacific
Gulf of San Blas
Rio de Veragua
Belem
Puerto Limon
Costa Rica
Admiral Murdock
Rudolf Cronan
Glenn Stewart
George B. Massey
von Humboldt
de Louis
Charcot
Harrisse
Vignaud
Magnaghi
Windsor
Francis Parkman
France
Morison
Hammond
Atlantic
Bristol
Stevens
Steward’s Department
Mellon Educational Foundation of Pittsburgh
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Milton. Fund
Samuel E. Morison
Elizabeth Morison
Paul Hammond
Mary. Otis