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Uk Marine Traffic


The tracks of angling boats off the coast of Cornwall

One of my favorite real-time vehicle tracking maps is Marine Traffic, which shows the alive positions as well as tracks of boats some the world. It is ever fascinating to explore the major transportation lanes inward as well as some coastal waters that emerge on Marine Traffic. One affair that never occurred to me when using Marine Traffic is that dissimilar types of marine vessels land role dissimilar routes as well as engage inward dissimilar types of marine journeys.

The dissimilar types of routes as well as journeys taken yesteryear dissimilar types of marine vessel tin halt move seen inward a novel serial of maps yesteryear Alasdair Rae. In Watching the Ships Go By Alasdair has created a serial of static maps showing the vessel tracks of dissimilar types of vessel inward the coastal waters some the UK. These include maps showing the dissimilar type of marine traffic as well as transportation routes taken yesteryear cargo ships, rider ships, angling boats, high speed craft, armed forces vessels, tankers as well as recreational craft.

Each of these private vessel maps is fascinating (and beautiful) inward its ain right. For example the angling vessel map reveals non exclusively where British waters are existence fished exactly the ports some the United Kingdom of Great Britain as well as Northern Ireland of Britain as well as Northern Republic of Ireland which are even as well as thence active centers for marine fishing.

Also See


Shipmap.org - an animated map visualizing the movements of the global merchant transportation fleet over the bird of 2012.

Global Fishing Watch - tracks over 35,000 commercial angling vessels some the basis inward nearly real-time inward social club to attention monitor global angling as well as protect fish stocks, which are threatened yesteryear over-fishing, illegal angling as well as habitat destruction.

Billionaires on the Sea - Forbes's interactive map shows the journeys some the basis taken yesteryear a publish of super-yachts owned yesteryear the super-rich during 2017.