File:Rear map.jpg

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English: "The very earliest rendition of a bathymetric map of an oceanic basin. Matthew Fontaine Maury published this map in 1853 in Explanations and Sailing Directions to Accompany the Wind and Current Charts."
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http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/history/readings/vicissitudes/media/gulf.html
From NOAA's page about the memoirs of 1852: Vicissitudes of Ocean Exploration Rear Admiral S. R. Franklin, brother of Major General William B. Franklin of Civil War fame, and his time on the USS Dolphin (1836).

The map was produced in the 1830's with US Navy data, and the image itself is from the NOAA archives.
Author Matthew Fontaine Maury

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