Pilot Chart of the North Atlantic Ocean
Sub-Title
Founded upon the researches in the early part of the nineteenth century by Matthew Fontaine Maury, while serving as a Lieutenant in the United States Navy
Subject
North Atlantic Ocean, icebergs
Date
1938 Feb 16
Mapmaker
United States Hydrographic Office of the Navy, and Weather Bureau of the Department of Agriculture
Publisher
United States Hydrographic Office, Secretary of the Navy
Place of Publication
Washington, D. C.
Accession Number
T0055.1997.0621
Condition
Fair. Some browning, staining, surface dirt.
Curatorial Notes
Should be deaccessioned.
Insets
Verso insets: 1. Source of Icebergs and their Drift into the North Atlantic 2. Chart C Showing Distribution of Icebergs 1911- 1923 3. Chart B Grand Banks 4. Chart D Showing Average course of the boundary between Labrador Current water and Atlantic Current water during ice seasons 1934-1937 5. Chart E Number of Icebergs South of 48th Parallel 1900-1937.
Verso Inset: Annual Change in the Variation of the Compass
Verso Inset: Annual Change in the Variation of the Compass
Notes
Map #1,4000, from unidentified source.
Size
23 3/8 X 31 3/4
Storage
c05d05