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Thursday, June 10, 2021
National Geographic Recognizes Earth’s 5th Ocean
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National Geographic Recognizes Earth’s 5th Ocean

It took over 100 years, but starting now National Geographic will recognize the body of water around Antarctica and below the 60th parallel as the Southern

June 10, 2021
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Friday, February 26, 2021
NOAA Kicks Off Transition Exclusively to Electronic Navigation Charts
Shipping

NOAA Kicks Off Transition Exclusively to Electronic Navigation Charts

The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is set to begin implementing its sunset plan for paper nautical charts as it transitions exclusively

February 26, 2021
Total Views: 10853

Monday, June 22, 2020
Map of World’s Uncharted Ocean Floor Takes Shape Despite Crisis
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Map of World’s Uncharted Ocean Floor Takes Shape Despite Crisis

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, June 21 (Reuters) – Plans to map the entire ocean floor by 2030 are going ahead despite the challenges of the coronavirus

June 22, 2020
Total Views: 140

Tuesday, May 22, 2018
world's oceans map
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Mappers Look to Chart World’s Ocean Floor by 2030

By Jonathan Saul LONDON, May 22 (Reuters) – Using data collected from underwater drones, merchant ships, fishing boats and even explorers, a new

May 22, 2018
Total Views: 98

Monday, August 26, 2013
NOAA Maps 170 Years of Tropical Cyclones
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NOAA Maps 170 Years of Tropical Cyclones

The Environmental Visualization Lab at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released images depicting data for a total of 11,967 cyclones

August 26, 2013
Total Views: 15

Thursday, April 19, 2012
NOAA Releases New Viewer for Earth’s Ocean Floor
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NOAA Releases New Viewer for Earth’s Ocean Floor

NOAA this week has released a new viewing tool that allows easier access to sea floor maps and other data on the world’s coasts, continental shelves and

April 19, 2012
Total Views: 77

Wednesday, February 8, 2012
ERMA Mapping tool
Offshore

BSEE and NOAA Partner to Develop Interactive Arctic Oil Spill Response Mapping

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) announced today they are partnering to

February 8, 2012
Total Views: 11

Thursday, July 7, 2011
NOAA Ship Fairweather sets sail to map areas of the Arctic
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NOAA Ship Fairweather sets sail to map areas of the Arctic

NOAA Ship Fairweather, a 231-foot survey vessel, departed Kodiak, Alaska, today on a mission to conduct hydrographic surveys in remote areas of the Arctic

July 7, 2011
Total Views: 89

Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Today is World Hydrography Day!
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Today is World Hydrography Day!

Today, June 21st, is World Hydrography Day, a day to recognize our ocean surveyors.  Check out this video from Mary Glackin, NOAA’s Deputy Under

June 21, 2011
Total Views: 26

Sunday, March 13, 2011
Japan Tsunami Graphics – NOAA Provides Ocean Models
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Japan Tsunami Graphics – NOAA Provides Ocean Models

  The Above graphic shows the propagation of the recent Tsunami as it moved across the pacific. Click HERE for more tsunami graphics and video from

March 13, 2011
Total Views: 868

Saturday, October 30, 2010
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The Most Remote Places on Earth – Mapped

From the gCaptain archives… Here at gCaptain, we are a big fan of maps and when you came across this one, we couldn’t help but to post here on

October 30, 2010
Total Views: 344

Friday, October 29, 2010
NOAA maps October 25th Indonesian tsunami
NOAA

NOAA maps October 25th Indonesian tsunami

Click image for interactive map Tsunami Event – October 25, 2010 Mentawai, Indonesia The Indonesia tsunami event was generated by a Mw 7.7 earthquake

October 29, 2010
Total Views: 302

Friday, October 8, 2010
NOAA

‘Charting a More Perfect Union’: NOAA releases Civil War chart collection

U.S. Coast Survey cartographers traveled with Union forces to produce battlefield maps during the Civil War (Map of the Battlefield of Chickamauga). Credit:

October 8, 2010
Total Views: 21

Sunday, July 18, 2010
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2010 Submarine Cable Map

Click on image for enlargement. 2010 Submarine Cable Map TeleGeography’s popular Submarine Cable Map has been fully updated for 2010. The latest edition

July 18, 2010
Total Views: 54

Thursday, July 15, 2010
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Who Has The Oil? A Map of World Oil Reserves.

“The United States consumes more than 20,000,000 barrels of oil per day but has less than 2 percent of the world’s remaining oil” This map,

July 15, 2010
Total Views: 2858

Sunday, June 20, 2010

China’s Containers

This map from worldmapper.org uses relative size to show proportion of all shipping containers being loaded and unloaded in each country. There are more

June 20, 2010
Total Views: 10

Monday, June 14, 2010
NOAA

GeoPlatform – Gulf Oil Spill Response

The dynamic nature of the BP oil spill has been a challenge for a range of communities – from hotel operators to fishermen to local community leaders. We

June 14, 2010
Total Views: 14

Tuesday, March 9, 2010
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Chilean Earthquake Tsunami – Mapped

This post is brought to us by Peter Mello of Sea-fever.org (via NOAA), in two seperate installments.  The first post a map of Ocean Energy Distribution Map

March 9, 2010
Total Views: 32

Friday, July 3, 2009
Blog

Capsized Cruise Ship Visible on Google Maps

Original Photo Found HERE. While this is a rather old story, it just came to our attention through one of our many vast searches on the internet.  This photo

July 3, 2009
Total Views: 534

Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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A Map Of Undersea Cables From 1901 – A digg.com Find

This was brought to our attention by digg.com, the social networking site that allows its users to submit links and news stories and then list the stories by

February 17, 2009
Total Views: 30
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