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The Floor of the Arabian Sea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

John D. H. Wiseman
Affiliation:
Mineral Department, British Museum of Natural History
R. B. Seymour Sewell
Affiliation:
Leader of the “John Murray” Expedition to the Indian Ocean.

Extract

During the course of the John Murray Expedition some 22,000 miles of the floor of the Arabian Sea and the neighbouring areas of the Indian Ocean were mapped by means of the Echosounding apparatus. The region between India and Africa was crossed four times, namely:

(i) from Aden to Karachi,

(ii) from Bombay to Mombasa,

(iii) from Zanzibar to Colombo, and

(iv) from Colombo to Aden,

while more detailed surveys were carried out in the Gulf of Aden, the Gulf of Oman, and the region off Zanzibar.

Type
Original Articles
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1937

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