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The Organisation of Hydrographic Information for English Navigators – Five Hundred Years of Sailing Directions and Charts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2001

Susanna Fisher
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Abstract

This paper is based on the President's Invitational Address given by the author at the 54th Annual General Meeting on 25 October 2000.

The paper outlines the changes in the physical form in which hydrographic information has reached the chart tables of ordinary navigators over the last five hundred years and traces its development from a purely verbal aid to a graphic one.

Keywords

1. History2. Marine3. Sailing Directions4. Charts
Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 54 , Issue 2 , May 2001 , pp. 157 - 166
Copyright
© 2001 The Royal Institute of Navigation

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