Hello everybody,
My name is Michael and I am an amateur novelist.
For a story I'm currently writnig, I need information about shipping routes in the South pacific in 1981/82.
Thus, I would like to know if any merchant ships left New Zealand or Australia to go to Chilean or Argentinian ports at that time, after crossing the South Pacific.
Would you know then what types of ships these were? Oil tankers, container ships, cruise ships, others? Also, would you have the names of some of these ships and the nature of their cargo?
In the event that no ship would have passed through there, were there sea routes in the other direction, via Southeast Asian waters and then the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean (thus passing through other ports maybe, such as Singapore or Cape Town)?
I would be very grateful if you could provide me with this information or direct me to somebody who could or to a website containing archives.
Michael