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Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean as shown by John D

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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 to 1887 was the TUSCARORA Deep in what we nowcall the Kuril Trench to the NE of Japan.

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NOAA Central Library Historical Collection

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Voyage to Inner Space
History of Oceanography Collection
Bathymetric Maps Collection

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