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Marina cooking dinner, Lada hugging the mast, with a map in the background showing the route of the Lady Mary, Fremantle, Western Australia, 2020

Russian family Klochkovs have been living on the ocean for eight years on their yacht Lady Mary. On November 26, 2021, they set a new world record. 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 Nastya and Lada 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. Lada become the first child in history to have sailed in Antarctica and around Cape Horn. There is no evidence of other such voyage with children anywhere in the world. "After a year and a half of waiting in Australia, we decided to cross the Pacific without stopping. All the countries of the Pacific are closed due to lockdowns. We knew we would not be able to dock at any shore for the next six months..."

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 04.2020
Date Uploaded: 11.2021
Photo Location: Fremantle, Australia
Camera: Canon EOS 6D
Copyright: © Iulia Galushina