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Sir John Murray's world map of 1899, Indian Ocean

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Description

Sir John Murray's world map of 1899, Indian Ocean. The onlyphysiographic feature he named were deeps, defined as area of the seafloorbelieved to have depths greater than 3000 fathoms.

Credit

NOAA Central Library Historical Collection

Collection

Voyage to Inner Space

History of Oceanography Collection

Bathymetric Maps Collection

Keywords

Exploration

Maps