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Historical atlas of the North Pacific Ocean : maps of discovery and scientific exploration, 1500-2000 / Derek Hayes.
Penn Museum Library - Reference G2862.N6S12 H3 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hayes, Derek (Historian)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historical geography.
- Discoveries in geography.
- North Pacific Ocean--Discovery and exploration--Maps.
- North Pacific Ocean.
- North Pacific Ocean--Historical geography--Maps.
- North Pacific Ocean--Maps.
- Genre:
- Maps.
- Encyclopedias.
- Physical Description:
- 224 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 33 cm
- Other Title:
- Maps of discovery and scientific exploration, 1500-2000
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : Published under the auspices of North Pacific Marine Science Organization [by] Sasquatch Books, [2001]
- Summary:
- Over five hundred years of maps depicting the North Pacific Ocean and the lands that border it have been collected into this stunning new atlas by Derek Hayes, author of the critically acclaimed Historical Atlas of the Pacific Northwest. From antique charts of the sixteenth century to modern satellite images of today, this atlas presents Dutch, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Russian, American, Spanish, French, and British maps collected from archives and libraries around the world. It covers the major voyages of exploration of Magellan, Bering, Cook, Vancouver, Perry, and others, and includes modern satellite, computer-generated, and other images that show the nature of the ocean and the seabed in astonishing detail. Each of the 285 maps in this amazing new collection helps tell the story of how the secrets of the enigmatic North Pacific Ocean have been probed and revealed.
- Contents:
- About the North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES) 7
- The Sixteenth Century
- A Pacific Ocean? 9
- Triumphant Visions of the Boundless Ocean 13
- That Exceedingly Vast Sea - Balboa and Magellan 14
- Voyage in Search of Gold 16
- Spanish Galleons Find Their Way across the Pacific 17
- Japan and the Pacific 20
- The Separation of Asia and America 23
- Sir Francis Drake - How Far North? 26
- The Seventeenth Century
- Robert Dudley's Sea Atlas 30
- The Voyages of Sebastian Vizcaino 31
- The Dutch Reach the Pacific 33
- Early Maps of Korea 39
- Early Maps of China 40
- The Russians Reach the Pacific 42
- Early Mapping of the American West Coast 45
- Van Keulen's Sea Atlases 48
- Japanese Knowledge of the Pacific 50
- The Eighteenth Century
- The East Asian Coast before Bering 53
- Lost Islands and False Continents 58
- Vitus Bering's First Voyage 63
- Martin Spanberg's Voyage to Japan 66
- Vitus Bering's Second Voyage 67
- Georg Steller - First Scientist of the North Pacific 70
- Alexei Chirikov's Voyage 72
- De L'Isle's Fantastic Map 75
- John Green's Map of the North Pacific 76
- Gerhard Muller's Famous Map 77
- The Russians Discover the Aleutians 80
- The Spanish Northward Voyages 85
- Bruno Hezeta Maps the Northwest Coast 89
- Bodgea y Quadra's Epic Voyage 91
- James Cook Defines the Northeast Pacific 92
- The Lovtsov Atlas of the North Pacific Ocean 100
- La Perouse - The French Answer to Cook 102
- Billings and Sarychev 107
- Fur Traders of the Northwest Coast 108
- The Sea That Never Was 109
- The Maps of Aaron Arrowsmith 110
- The Spanish Probe the Strait of Juan de Fuea 112
- Malaspina's Voyage - The Spanish Answer to Cook 113
- The Last Spanish Explorations 114
- The Spanish Define the West Coast 116
- George Vancouver's Epic Survey 119
- Broughton Charts the West Pacific 125
- The Nineteenth Century
- The First Russian Circumnavigation 127
- Mamiya and Sakhalin 129
- The Voyages of Otto Kotzebue 132
- Fedor Lutke's Scientific Voyage 134
- The United States Exploring Expedition 136
- Mikhail Tebenkov's Atlas 140
- Commodore Perry's Black Ships - The U.S. Japan Expedition 142
- The U.S. North Pacific Exploring Expedition 146
- Matthew Fontaine Maury's Wind and Current Charts 152
- Becher's Navigation of the Pacific Ocean 157
- British Admiralty Hydrographic Surveying 158
- Coastal Surveys of the United States 160
- Tuscarora Discovers the Deeps 164
- Exploring the Depths - The Challenger Expedition 168
- The Maps of Sir John Murray 172
- The Voyage of the Nero 174
- Whaling and Sealing in the North Pacific 176
- The Twentieth Century
- The Prince Maps the Depths 180
- The Coming of Sonar 182
- The Last Cruise of Carnegie 183
- The Great Cooperative Effort - Norpac 184
- The Voyages of Vityaz 186
- Envisioning the Sea Floor 188
- The U.S. Navy's Climatic Atlas 190
- The Bathymetry of the North Pacific 191
- The Ocean Drilling Program 194
- The International Decade of Ocean Exploration 195
- The Pacific Salmon 196
- The Origin of the Continents and Oceans 198
- Destructive Waves - Pacific Tsunamis 202
- Multibeam Bathymetry Reveals the Details 204
- The Satellite Sees All 206
- The World Ocean Circulation Experiment 211
- The Future - Project Argo 212.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-221) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1570613117
- OCLC:
- 58871545
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