Dr. Alain Bombard (1924 – 2005)
Dr.Alain Bombard was a French biologist, physician and politician famous for sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in a Zodiac rubber dinghy l’Hérétique from Las Palmas to Barbados in 1952. He theorized that a human being could very well survive the trip across the ocean without provisions and decided to test his theory himself in order…
Vice Admiral Henry C. Bovell (1893 – 1963)
Henry Cecil Bovell was born in Barbados on the 4th of January 1893 the only son of the Sir Henry Alleyne Bovell KC, Attorney General of Barbados, and Lady Annie Cecil (nee Briggs) Bovell. He died aged 70 on 31st March 1963. He left Hazelwood School (in Collymore Rock) in the summer of 1905 for the…
El Calafate & El Chalten – Argentina 2010
I have always wanted to return to Argentina after staying in Ushuaia on my return from Antarctica, and not just for the fine Red wine! The opportunity came in December 2009 when I met my cousin, also William Burton, in Miami and we travelled to Calafate via Buenos Aries. With both of us having the…
William M. H. Greaves (1897 – 1955)
William Greaves’ family came from the west of England but were living in Barbados where his father, Eustace C. Greaves, was a doctor. William, who was his parents’ only son, attended Lodge School, Barbados, from 1905 to 1915, and then spent the War years 1915-16 at Codrington College, Barbados. Having won a scholarship to St…
Samuel Weatherhead (1756 – 1816)
Samuel Weatherhead was born in the parish of St. Philip, Barbados in 1756. At an early age, he ran away from home and took passage on a merchant ship sailing for England. En route, pirates seized the ship. However, Samuel and all on board escaped certain death when, by a small majority, the captors voted to spare…
BOMEX (Barbados Oceanographic & Meteorological Experiment) -1969
The Barbados Oceanographic & Meteorological Experiment (BOMEX) was an experiment that took place in the western Atlantic and Barbados in May to July 1969. This recorded the Surface Air temperature, Wet Bulb Temperature, Humidity, Wind speed and direction, rainfall, Cloud cover, Visibility, Sea Surface Temperature and wave height and frequency. These recording were made in Barbados and by…
Barbados Hiking Association: Annual Hill Challenge
The 2020 Barbados Hill Challenge which is organised by the Barbados Hiking Association takes place on Friday 1st May 2020. All correspondence should be directed to the organisers: Below is the Barbados Hiking Association Hill Challenge promo video produced by Jenny Gonsalves. Click here to download promo video. [hr]The aim of the Barbados Hiking Association…
Joe Fortes (1863 – 1922)
Joseph (Joe) Seraphim Fortes was a prominent figure in the early history of Vancouver, Canada. He was born in Bridgetown, Barbados on February 9, 1863. After leaving his homeland in his mid-teens, he worked in Britain for several years. In 1884 he sailed around Cape Horn from Liverpool on the Robert Kerr, arriving in Burrard Inlet …
Capt. William T. Shorey (1859 – 1919)
Known affectionately as the Black Ahab, William Thomas Shorey was born on January 25, 1859 on the island of Barbados in the British West Indies. He was the son of a Scottish sugar planter and a West Indian woman of mixed African and European ancestry. In 1875 he shipped to Boston, Massachusetts as a cabin…
Antarctica
Antarctica is the world’s last remaining wilderness. The name conjures images of the famous explorers like Scott, Shackleton, Amundsen, and more recently Ranulph Fiennes, some of who lost their lives and that of their companions in the quest for exploring the vast unknown cold desert at the South Pole. Today, any one with a taste…
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