The new nation was a seafaring one, amassing great wealth from ship-building, whaling, fishing and maritime trade.
Each May and June, the flocks of seafaring birds arrive on the islets, clamouring for the best breeding spots.
Like the British Empire, however, the seafaring group is bound to wax and wane over time.
Since the beginning of seafaring, families and friends have lit bonfires at night to guide sailors home.
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This has led some researchers to propose that seafaring peoples from India may have introduced them to Australia.
Local media (mostly controlled by the governor) say that foreigners want to destroy Russia as a seafaring nation.
But it also was a ship where inexperienced sailors could learn seafaring skills that go back hundreds of years.
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For Portuguese speakers these works have long been an evocation of a seafaring heritage in which many take pride.
Danes love to travel and trade, a legacy of their seafaring heritage.
Since opening its doors to the public last year, the seafaring spa has welcomed all manner of guests onto its deck.
And while they may still swear like sailors, you can bet that today s film crew members are more richly compensated than their seafaring predecessors.
Dr Jonathan Benjamin, of WA Coastal and Marine and the University of Edinburgh, said Scotland was a maritime nation with a rich seafaring history.
There are seafaring excursions such as sunset cruises and trips to Bird Island, so called for its abundance of red-footed boobies and brown noddies.
He is best remembered for creating the Plimsoll Line, which appears on the hull of seafaring ships to show safe loading limits, preventing accidents.
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Both its seafaring topic and its shifting musical form speak directly to our restless desire for new worlds, then or now, real or imagined.
Along with their sophisticated seafaring skills, the Phoenicians were renowned as an intellectual and industrious civilization who helped develop the alphabet we still use today.
But I can say that at first blush, it seems AC4 looks like a decent enough seafaring game, with more than enough buckles to swash.
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The hope is that such vehicles could patrol the coastline, or serve as a first defense against pirates, and other such small, fast-moving seafaring dangers.
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But a seafaring competitiveness is kicking in, among moguls and beyond.
Just the same, it might be wise to prepare to batten down the hatches, as seafaring men used to say when a storm was looming.
The salmon that drew seafaring culture here in the 19th Century are also an attraction today, though now the fish is flown in directly from Alaska.
Evans wanted fervently to believe that the Minoans' wealth in the late Bronze Age was based on a powerful seafaring empire that extended to mainland Greece.
It "aimed to echo the message of peace and friendship to the neighboring states and guarantee security of the seafaring and shipping lines vis-a-vis sea piracy, " the news agency said.
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As a seafaring nation, Britain depended on accurate navigation, and determining longitude on the open ocean depended on comparing local time to the time in a place where the longitude was known.
At a time when Portugal was a great seafaring nation Columbus worked as common seaman on a merchant ship and as a chart-maker before entering the service of King John II of Portugal.
With no job and only seafaring skills, "The fastest way to make money was to find another ship with passengers and gold and merchandise on it, and they would just go rob it, " said Bean.
So a new idea was born, sometimes called the "beachcomber express, " in which the first ex-Africans were seashore dwellers who spread rapidly around the coast of the Indian Ocean, showing an unexpected skill at seafaring to reach Australia across a strait that was at least 40 miles wide.
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