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Hydrography

noun
1.
The science of the measurement and description and mapping of the surface waters of the earth with special reference to navigation.





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"Hydrography" Quotes from Famous Books



... of hydrography has its importance the chief meaning of Cricklade in history lay in the fact that it was the spot where this Ermine Street on its way from the south country to the Severn Valley got over the Thames, and the village connected with it was entrenched certainly ...
— The Historic Thames • Hilaire Belloc
... have the offer of completing, or rather of going over again, my knowledge of medicine, surgery, history, geography, botany, mineralogy, conchology, geodesy, chemistry, natural philosophy, mechanics, and hydrography, why I accept, ...
— The English at the North Pole - Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras • Jules Verne
... great navigator's services into a small and easily comprehended point—"if we except the sea of Amur and the Japanese Archipelago, which still remain imperfectly known to Europeans, he has completed the hydrography ...
— The Cannibal Islands - Captain Cook's Adventure in the South Seas • R.M. Ballantyne


Words linked to "Hydrography" :   oceanography, hydrographical, oceanology


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