Dingoes are thought to have arrived in Australia with Asian seafarers about 3,500 years ago.

Liverpudlians are more often known as Scousers, a reference to a cheap stew eaten by the city's seafarers in the 19th century.

They had lovely voices, much clearer than any mortal, and when a storm was rising, and they expected ships to be wrecked, they would sing in the most seductive strains of the wonders of the deep, bidding the seafarers have no fear of them.

In 1498, the seafarer and explorer Vasco da Gama found a route to India.