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Historical perspective   Denmark has a long tradition for voyages of discovery and expeditions. From Jens Munk and Carsten Niebuhr to Galathea 1, Galathea 2 - and now Galathea 3.
 
 

Route - Galathea 1

The corvette Galathea left Copenhagen on 24 June 1845 and sailed south around Africa to India, where it visited, among othe places, Tranquebar and the Nicobar Islands.

The expedition also called in Hawaii, which were then called the Sandwich Islands, before it sailed south around South America and across the Atlantic Ocean back to Denmark.

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