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Sir John Murray's map of the world ocean published in 1912

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Sir John Murray's map of the world ocean published in 1912. Murray stuck withhis nomenclature and interpretation of features until his death. The Germangeographers were definitely ahead of the world in their understanding of thenature of the seafloor and our planet until the Second World War.

Credit

NOAA Central Library Historical Collection

Collection

Voyage to Inner Space

Keywords

Exploration

Maps