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pl23_map00055.jpg

A 1912 map of the Atlantic Ocean by the German oceanographer Gerhard Schott

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A 1912 map of the Atlantic Ocean by the German oceanographer Gerhard Schott. Note the use of the term Telegraph Plateau following the 1858 nomenclatureof Maury. In: Geographie des Atlantischen ozeans by Gerhard Schott.Library Call No. GC481 .S34 1. Aufl. (1912) .

Credit

NOAA Central Library Historical Collection

Collection

Voyage to Inner Space

History of Oceanography Collection

Bathymetric Maps Collection

Keywords

Exploration

Maps