Thursday, 25 April 2013

Bathymetry

England's Sir John Murray compiled this bathymetric (depth) chart of the North Atlantic in 1911. Murray's chart went far beyond American naval officer Matthew Maury's first attempt at bathymetric mapping in 1855. In addition, Murray's map gave birth to the idea of the Telegraphic Plateau, a submarine land formation from Canada to the British Isles, across which the first transatlantic cable was laid.

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