ExplorersWeb: week’s top links
ExplorersWeb’s March 29 roundup bundled this week’s adventure highlights — including a solved dangerous cave puzzle and the story of the first woman sea captain — and drew 94 views. (x.com) It’s a tidy, low‑noise way to catch expedition‑grade reading for planning big trips. (x.com)
ExplorersWeb’s March 29 roundup pointed readers to an ExplorersWeb feature titled “Riddle of the Source of Central Asia’s Greatest River Solved,” credited to Jerry Kobalenko and published on March 10, 2026. (explorersweb.com (explorersweb.com)) (explorersweb.com) That feature reports an Australian–British team traced the Amu Darya (historically the Oxus) back to a high‑altitude glacial lake in Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor. (explorersweb.com (explorersweb.com)) (explorersweb.com) The roundup also linked a March 8, 2026 profile of Molly Kool in Explore Magazine, which describes Kool as the first woman in North America to obtain a licensed ship‑captain’s certificate. (explore-mag.com (explore-mag.com)) (explore-mag.com) Regional records and museum material note Molly Kool earned her captain’s papers in 1939 and commanded the scow Jean K on the Bay of Fundy during her career. (albertcountymuseum.com (albertcountymuseum.com)) (albertcountymuseum.com) The links were shared as part of ExplorersWeb’s recurring “Adventure Links” roundup, a weekly curated list frequently authored by Rebecca McPhee, with recent installments on March 8 and March 22, 2026. (explorersweb.com (explorersweb.com)) (explorersweb.com) Kobalenko’s Amu Darya piece explicitly says the new fieldwork builds on a 2007 expedition and frames the discovery as the resolution of a multibicentury geographic question. (explorersweb.com (explorersweb.com)) (explorersweb.com)
