I would’ve thought they would be going a bit more north-northwest for that, along the African coast. I thought that the seas west of South Africa are some of the roughest in the world, so I thought the route was a kind of upside-down U shape rather than a straight line.
Why are there so many ships sailing due east/west through the Atlantic? Are they headed to the Pacific?
Buenos Aires and other SA coastal cities maybe?
I guess so, I thought they tended to avoid those seas and traveled north-west then southwest to get there. But I guess a direct route is easier.
Isn’t that just traveling to Latin America?
I would’ve thought they would be going a bit more north-northwest for that, along the African coast. I thought that the seas west of South Africa are some of the roughest in the world, so I thought the route was a kind of upside-down U shape rather than a straight line.