19th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Travel
Lada and Marina Klochkovs during their sailing around the world and setting a new world record, Indian ocean, Western Australia

Russian family Klochkovs have been living on the ocean for eight years on their yacht Lady Mary. They set a new world record. During that time the family passed all meridians, Atlantic, Indian, Pacific, Southern Oceans, five southern capes, including Cape Horn, the Strait of Magellan, Drake Passage, and twice crossed the equator, faced countless storms and tempests. They explored the least known portion of the Pacific and proved the absence of land marked on modern nautical charts. Andrey and Marina with their two daughters repeated some of the routes of the great explorers – James Cook, Fabian Bellingshausen, Adam Krusenstern. They walked the paths of Charles Darwin, Thor Heyerdahl and Jack London, and followed in the footsteps of the characters of Jules Verne’s book. There is no evidence of other such voyage with children anywhere in the world. Lada become the first child in history to have sailed in Antarctica and around Cape Horn under sail. Hundreds of people comment in social media that this extraordinary journey, done by an ordinary family, helps them to believe in themselves and spread their wings.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 03.2021
Date Uploaded: 11.2021
Photo Location: Australia
Camera: Canon EOS R
Copyright: © Iulia Galushina