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Oops, and what an unusual course - to sail across the Atlantic from Brazil just to get to Australia... talk about going the long way... Courcelles (talk) 23:20, 31 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Yup - if I had to guess, it was likely that it was a safer route, since there would be more places to stop between Africa and Australia than between South America and Australia, but that's just a hunch. Parsecboy (talk) 23:27, 31 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]