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Full page presentation of the two maps shown in image map00019 and map00020.as published by Petermann's Geographische Mittheilungen in 1870 by LouisFrancois de Pourtales of the United States Coast Survey.
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Map of the North Atlantic Ocean published on the eve of the CHALLENGERExpedition in The ocean, atmosphere, and life.... by the French geographerElisee Reclus. This map shows some very large non-existent shoals to the eastof Newfoundland as well a d
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Map of the Atlantic Ocean published after the outward bound segment of theCHALLENGER Expedition. This map shows little improvement over earlierversions. The Mid-Atlantic Ridge is shown bending to the west south of theAzores and there is no expressi
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Map of the area southeast of New Guinea showing various reefs and islands ina sparsely surveyed area. In: Petermann's Geographische Mittheilungen for 1874.
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Map of the Congo Canyon, one of the great canyons on the west coast of Africa.The source is noted as Medlycott and Flood, 1875. Medlycott is mentioned byas having been associated with HMS LYNX in 1859 on the west coast of Africa, sothis would place
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The Contour Map of the Atlantic should be known as one of the classical mapsof the Earth Sciences. This version of the map was published by Sir WyvilleThomson of the CHALLENGER Expedition in 1877 and is the first ever to show thecontinuity of the Mi
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This map, by Augustus Petermann, was the first bathymetric map of thePacific Ocean. Data was acquired by the CHALLENGER, the USS TUSCARORA, and theGerman research ship GAZELLE. Note the much denser sounding information on theTUSCARORA as the result
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Soundings taken by the first USS ENTERPRISE exploration vessel under the command of Captain Albert S. Barker. This was the first U.S. ship to specificallycircumnavigate the globe on a sounding and temperature measuring expedition.Note the shoal area
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Track of the USS ENTERPRISE across the Indian Ocean. Note the 3097 fathomsounding southwest of Sumatra. That sounding is the first indication of the JavaTrench. A few years later, Sir John Murray named that area the Enterprise Deep, a name which has
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Track of the USS ENTERPRISE across the southern Pacific Ocean in 1885.At the time this line was run, it was the furthest south continuous east-westsounding line yet observed.
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Profiles of Concepcion Bank and Seine Bank by Edward Stallibrass, a Britishtelegraph engineer, as published in 1887 inDeep-Sea Sounding in Connection with Submarine Telegraphy, Journal of theSociety of Telegraph-Engineers and Electricians, Volume XVI
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Maps of the track of the DACIA in 1883, the Bottomless Pit, and Congo Canyon,by Edward Stallibrass, a British telegraph engineer, as published in 1887 inDeep-Sea Sounding in Connection with Submarine Telegraphy, Journal of theSociety of Telegraph-Eng
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Map of the Congo Canyon as surveyed by the Cable Ship BUCCANEER, byEdward Stallibrass, a British telegraph engineer, as published in 1887 inDeep-Sea Sounding in Connection with Submarine Telegraphy, Journal of theSociety of Telegraph-Engineers and El
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World map with ocean physiography published in 1887 inAppletons' American Standard Geographies Physical Geography , pp. 20-21.Note Alaska Deep and Alaska Rise off the coast of South America. These werediscovered by George Belknap on the USS Alaska i
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Atlantic Ocean as shown by John D. Quackenbos and William Healy Dall in:Appletons' American Standard Geographies Physical Geography , pp. 20-21.The Dolphin Rise was named for the USS DOLPHIN which first sounded on theMid-Atlantic Ridge under Lieutena
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Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean as shown by John D. Quackenbos andWilliam Healy Dall in: Appletons' American Standard Geographies PhysicalGeography , pp. 20-21. Note that Ninety East Ridge is missing and that thedeepest depth yet observed up t
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Sir John Murray's map of the Atlantic Ocean, Chart 1A, accompanying theSummary of Results of the Challenger Expedition, 1895.
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Sir John Murray's map of the Indian Ocean, Chart 1C, accompanying theSummary of Results of the Challenger Expedition, 1895.
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Sir John Murray's map of the Pacific Ocean, Chart 1B, accompanying theSummary of Results of the Challenger Expedition, 1895.
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Section of North Pacific Ocean on Murray's map of the Pacific Ocean, Chart 1B,accompanying the Summary of Results of the Challenger Expedition, 1895.
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