A few weeks ago, an international expedition exploring the Weddell Sea in the Antarctic stumbled on something truly ...
Researchers used nautical charts produced in the 1770s to help quantify changes in the coral reefs of the Florida Keys over the past 240 years. Loren McClenachan, a professor at Colby College in ...
Consider it another sign of the times, the end of era. In the old days, nautical maps printed on paper were standard equipment on everything from ocean-going ships to small fishing trawlers, almost as ...
WASHINGTON — John Hessler, mathematical wizard and the senior cartographic librarian at the Library of Congress, slipped into the locked underground vaults of the library one morning last week.
No audio available for this content. TCart a has introduced a new line of Satellite Reconnaissance Charts designed to complement official marine navigation maps in shallow waters. These digital maps, ...
The rare 14th-century portolan chart is worth $7.5 million. Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times / Getty Images Last fall, Christie’s auctioned off a “highly unusual” nautical map as part of an estate ...
Scientists say it’s possible we could use nautical maps to understand coral loss across our own shores. EIGHTEENTH CENTURY nautical maps of the Florida Keys area, which include a stunning amount of ...
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