And then you’ll be off on your way home again. At night you’ll be happy to head home to the lights of Ortelius and the welcoming warmth and food inside. And quite often something interesting will walk over to investigate you. You rarely have to walk very far before you discover something interesting. © Sara Jenner - Oceanwide Expeditions 16. And also out to deeper waters if there’s the chance of making new friends. © Sara Jenner - Oceanwide Expeditions 15. Zodiacs whisk you back and forth to the shore. Check out the bridge where Ortelius is run during normal day-to-day operations. It also has a lecture room where experts (geology, history, wildlife, etc.) load you up with interesting information on what you might be seeing on any given day. © Geert Kroes - Oceanwide Expeditions 11. He is recognized as the creator of the first modern atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (Theatre of the World). It boasts two connecting restaurants and a bar. Abraham Ortelius was a Brabantian cartographer, geographer, and cosmographer. Inside, m/v Ortelius shares standards of a comfortable hotel. (Don’t worry though, we always land far enough away to not disturb the wildlife). This means she can take you inland to destinations other cruises may not be able to reach. She comes equipped with a helicopter pad. © Wouter Kaandorp-Oceanwide Expeditions 8. She was renamed the Ortelius in honour of Abraham Ortelius (1527 – 1598), a Flemish/Dutch cartographer who published the world’s first modern atlas (this was the most expensive book ever printed in the world at the time). The Ortelius was born as the Marina Svetaeva in Poland in 1989 and worked as a special purpose vessel for the Russian Academy of Science. © Victoria Salem-Oceanwide Expeditions 6. And has a crew and staff of about 50 members total. © Victoria Salem - Oceanwide Expeditions 5. She can hold 108 passengers in her 50 cabins. She can reach speeds of up to 14.5 knots. The Ortelius has an ice class rating of UL1, which means it does just fine making its way through pack ice. Welcome aboard m/v Ortelius! It is 90.95 metres long and 17.20 metres at its widest. With that in mind here’s a sneak peek at some of the things you can expect aboard the m/v Ortelius. Still, you may very well be curious about the journey itself after all (depending on your cruise) you may be spending as much as a month aboard a ship. It’s understandable that most of your questions are going to revolve around what you can do once your Arctic or Antarctic cruise reaches its destination. 23 Van der Krogt, P.: Koeman's Atlantes Neerlandici, 5900:31B.2.19 Quick Photos That Show What Life’s like on Board the Cruise Ship Ortelius Van den Broecke, M.: Ortelius Atlas Maps, No. Irlandiae Accurata Descriptio, Auctore Baptista Boazio Italian text on verso with a large old coloured initial. With a large coat of arms cartouches showing the British coat of arms with the St George Cross and the Irish harp. One of the most desirable map of the island for collectors.ĭecorated with six cartouches and exceptionally well-engraved ships and sea monsters. Second state of the rare new plate with dedication to St. It comes from an Italian Ortelius atlas of 1608 or 1612. The map is a derivative of the large Baptista Boazio Ireland map engraved by Elstrach and published by Sudbury in 1599 of which only three examples survived. Referring to Ptolemy as the prince of geographers, Ortelius described how the sequence of maps in the Theatrum conformed to the rule established by Ptolemys authority- first the world, then the continents, and last the geographical regions from west to east. This west-oriented map rarely appears on the market, since it was bound in only a few copies of the Ortelius Atlas, while the publication was done by J. Rare and incredible decorative map of Ireland with beautiful old colour.
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