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Description
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 of first use of piano-wire sounding. Note the Tuscarora Deep, first discovery of a trench, today called the Japan-Kuril Trench.
Credit
NOAA Central Library Historical Collection
Display Date
1877
Location
Pacific Ocean North
Collection
Voyage to Inner Space
History of Oceanography Collection
Bathymetric Maps Collection
Keywords
Exploration
Maps