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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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