Destination Canton

CHINA NORTH AMERICA

During the summer of 1744 the East Indiaman Götheborg finally reached Canton only to be faced with a new disaster. Their warehouse had been destroyed by fire. Some tea and porcelain had been salvaged with the assistance of the British next door. We have found huge amounts of scorched porcelain shards during our excavation of the wreck site thus confirming the story. Heavily overladen they left Canton in January 1745 with 2677 chests of tea, some 200 000 pieces of porcelain and the normal assortment of bric-a-bracs to the beloved ones back home. The 19th of February water was brought onboard in Niewe Bay at Java.

This satellite photo courtesy of SSC Satellitbild, NOOA-11 GAC Image ©SSC Satellitbild 1993, Kiruna, Sweden.

This photo is taken from SPOT Satellite - mostly French but with Swedish part ownership, from 800 km's height, December the 16th 1991.

Satellite pictures are taken by reflected sun light from the surface of the Earth in cetain wave lengths are caught by the sensors of the satelliten and send by radiosignal down to a signal reception station for recording and conputer analysing. Colors are normally not as the human eye would see them but for best possibly analysis. Vegetation for example is red in the picture since it is easier to se differences in red colors than in green.

Earth observation satellites are circulating the planet in north-south directions. The Swedish Space station at Esrange outside Kiruna is therefore with is northern location one of the most utilized in the world. In their "daugther company" SSC Satellitbild satellite data is processed into geographic information to users all around the world.

For further information, click this link to the homepage of SSC Satellitbild.

CHINA NORTH AMERICA

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