Where We've Been



We've sailed from 60° North latitude (Prince William Sound, Alaska, and Bergen, Norway) to 55° South latitude (Beagle Channel, separating Chile and Argentina near the tip of South America), through the Panama and Suez canals and around the Cape of Good Hope, seen the northern lights, Southern Cross overhead, eclipses, Perseids and Geminids and thousands of Leonid meteors, transit of Venus, Comets Holmes and McNaught with the naked eye, sun dogs, zodiacal light, all 21 first-magnitude stars in one night, Magellanic Clouds and skyglow in a dark sky during the new moon more than two thousand miles from the nearest city.


Future AstroCruises (TM) and Countries to be Visited

Total countries and separate administrative areas recognized by
Travelers' Century Club to be visited by AstroCruises (TM):
102

The United States (as per the Department of State Bureau of Intelligence and Research, the Central Intelligence Agency The World Factbook and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Geographic Names Data Base) recognizes 68 Independent States, 19 Dependencies and Areas of Special Sovereignty and 1 "Other" (Taiwan) on this list, for a total of 88 (of 261) Entities [the other 14 Travelers' Century Club separate administrative areas have the U.S.-recognized entity indicated by brackets]. There are 68 (of 192) United Nations Member States represented on this list.


Previous AstroCruises (TM) and Countries Visited

   Total countries and separate administrative areas recognized by
Travelers' Century Club visited by 44 AstroCruises (TM) to date:   
98

The United States (as per the Department of State Bureau of Intelligence and Research, the Central Intelligence Agency The World Factbook and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Geographic Names Data Base) recognizes 65 Independent States and 19 Dependencies and Areas of Special Sovereignty on this list, for a total of 84 (of 261) Entities [the other 14 Travelers' Century Club separate administrative areas have the U.S.-recognized entity indicated by brackets]. There are 66 (of 192) United Nations Member States represented on this list.


Where next? Of the current (as of June, 2007) 317 countries and separate administrative areas recognized by Travelers' Century Club, 267 are reachable by ocean-going ships.

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