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Political Aspects of the Charting of the Seas

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2009

T. C. Haile
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This paper is an abridgement of the paper presented at an Ordinary meeting of the Institute held in London on 20 February 1980 with Captain G. Dudley in the Chair. Captain T. C. Haile of the School of Navigation, City of London Polytechnic, illustrates some past instances when political issues have involved hydrographic surveys, before discussing the delicacy of position fixing in off-shore oilfields.

The political implications of hydrography can be traced back at least to the close of the fifteenth century, when the great discoveries of the Portuguese, promoted by Prince Henry the Navigator, and the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus brought to a head the rivalry between the two powers for the control of the Spice Islands of the east.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Navigation , Volume 34 , Issue 1 , January 1981 , pp. 62 - 67
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1981

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