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Description
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 in 1882 and were the firstpublished names for the Peru-Chile Trench and Chile Rise.
Credit
NOAA Central Library Historical Collection
Category
Voyage to Inner Space
History of Oceanography Collection
Bathymetric Maps Collection
Keywords
Exploration
Maps