Drake's birthplace - Crowndale to the left and Tavistock the right.
All images © Michael Turner 1997-2006 except where otherwise noted.
Drake's birthplace - Crowndale to the left and Tavistock the right.
Tavistock and Dartmoor.
La Rochelle, France, visited during his voyage to Biscay circa 1562.
Cacheu Fort, Guinea- Bissau.
Borburata Cove, Venezuela.
San Juan de Ulua, Veracruz, Mexico.
River Chagres, Panamá.
"Port Pheasant" = Cabo Tiburón, Colombia.
"Isla Bastimentos" = Isla Grande, Panamá.
Boca Chica, Cartagena.
Old Panamá.
The Camino Real, the site of Drake's unsuccessful ambush.
The Camino Real at the River Campos where Drake robbed the mule train.
Carrickfergus Castle, Northern Ireland, where Drake embarked soldiers to attack Rathlin Island.
The World Voyage, 1577-80 - The Golden Hind, faithfully reproduced by Raymond Aker of the Drake Navigators Guild, Palo Alto, California, USA.
Photographed by Michael Turner - © Ray Aker 1997-2006
Mogador, Morocco, Drake's first port of call.
Drake's anchorage at Santa María Island, just north of Antofagasta, Chile, is the driest landscape in the world. Here Drake greased a launch and went fishing, whilst his men fruitlessly searched the mountain for water.
The ruined houses at Pisagua, Chile, from where Drake found silver bars and seized a Corsican pilot.
Guatulco, México. Drake ransacked this idyllic port and freed three blacks during their trial. This was Drake's last Latin port of call on his world voyage.
Drake's Estero, California. Drake built a fort on the sand spit and careened the ship to the left of the spit.
Drawings by Ray Aker to depict the possible construction of Drake's fort and its defensive capabilities within the geography of the cove, as originally drawn by Jodocus Hondius.
Photographed by Michael Turner - © Ray Aker 1997-2006
The Hondius Inset depicting Drake's arrival in the Moluccas, Indonesia, juxtaposed to a modern map by Raymond Aker.
Photographed by Michael Turner - © Ray Aker 1997-2006
From the proceeds of the circum- navigation, by 1583, Drake had purchased Buckland Abbey, near Plymouth as his country seat.
The 1585-6 West Indies Raid - The well at Bonanza Beach on Hierro Island in the Canary Islands, is where Drake's men procured a hogshead of water.
From Santiago fortress in the Cape Verde Islands, overlooking the town of Cidade Velha which Drake captured.
The church door. The doorstep is a grave dated 1563.
The houses in the village today must be the same ones as Drake and his men occupied.
Panoramic view of colonial Cartagena, Colombia, which Drake sacked and ransomed.
The Iberia Voyage 1589. Georgius Braunius 1570 drawing of Cascais, Portugal. Drake captured the town.
Photographed by Michael Turner, in the Cascais Tourist Office
An aerial view of Cascais, in my attempt to compare the present shape of the harbour and town with the drawing.
The Last Voyage, 1595-6 - Myself with the cannon "which brake at the first shotte,..." at Nombre de Dios, Panamá. Literally finding and touching Drake's world!
The profile of Escudo de Veragua Island, Panamá was drawn on the voyage. This was Drake's last anchorage.
Paris Profiles, folio 15, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, Manuscrits Anglais, 51
From a light plane, my attempt to document pictorially, the line of trees growing from sea rocks on the island's SE side, as included on the contemporary profile.
Portobelo Cove, Panama, where Drake was prepared for burial.
