Origin of "Station ID"or "Home Page"
Alexander von Humboldt, Self portrait in Paris, 1814{PD-US) , S/V ALEXANDER HUMBOLT (CCO)
ABOUT OUR CURRENT "HOME PAGE
AND NOTICE BOARD"
As our site has grown, and it is just getting started, we have found it necessary to use some visual markers to help the casual visitor through the site. Most particularly, we found the actual daily blog postings have become quite numerous and give every indication of becoming more so. We try to provide information to our very diverse audience who share a community of interest in things maritime, nautical, or ocean related. While that broadly stated interest is a unifying theme for our community of readers, the maritime world is very broad and generates a lot of information. So, as an aid in making the blog postings easier to understand visually, we have decided to start each "cyber publishing day" with what we originally called a "Station ID: and now refer to as "Home Page" and "Notice Board". The highly recognizable though changing "HOME PAGE / NOTICES " marks the start of a new day's postings since its instigation. It also provides us with a sort of community bulletin board where we may exhibit things we want to bring your attention to as the cyber publishing day wears on.
We chose as our ID images visually interesting vessels of significance to the search for, publication, analysis, and preservation of maritime knowledge. In the case of the ALEXANDER HUMBOLT our most frequently used ship image, this criteria is as true of the ship's name sake as the ship. The ship's name sake was Fridrich Wilhelm von Humbolt. Humbolt was born on September 14, 1769 and died May 6, 1859. A Prussian by birth he was considered a leading geographer, naturalist, and explorer of his day. Humbolt's quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the modern field of biogeography.
He explored South America between 1789 and 1804 and over the space of 21 years produced extensive volumes of descriptive literature on the biodiversity of South America.
This hyperlink will take you to a more complete biography:
ALEXANDER HUMBOLT:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_von_Humboldt
He explored South America between 1789 and 1804 and over the space of 21 years produced extensive volumes of descriptive literature on the biodiversity of South America.
This hyperlink will take you to a more complete biography:
ALEXANDER HUMBOLT:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_von_Humboldt
The sailing ship ALEXANDER von HUMBOLT II was built as a training ship and educational excursion vessel. To view a four minute video of the ship, its educational mission, and life aboard click on this hyperlink: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9RGNd7mxaQ This next hyperlink will take you to a site describing the ship's original owners the German Sail Training Association: http://www.globalcruiseship.com/ship/German-Sail-Training-Foundation,-Bremerhaven/Alexander-von-Humboldt-II.html
If you would like to nominate a ship for our future station ID drop us a comment. Or let us know what you think of the ALEXANDER von HUMBOLT II as a semi permanent Station ID. We of course claim no copyright for any images of the ALEXANDER von HUMBOLT II and believe in good faith that the images we utilize are in the public domain.
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