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1750-1850 cilimatological database world's oceans
From: Jim Thompson
Date: 2004 Aug 23, 19:17 -0300
From: Jim Thompson
Date: 2004 Aug 23, 19:17 -0300
I had not heard of this website yet: Climatological Database for the World's Oceans 1750-1850 http://www.ucm.es/info/cliwoc/ This fascinating image from that website shows all the positions of the available observations in the CLIWOC database for the period 1750-1854, thereby indicating global "western nation" shipping routes and ship traffic volumes of the era: http://www.knmi.nl/cliwoc/images/all_ships0.jpg There are many maps on the site, showing all kinds of information about winds and routes. It is fascinating to study them and think about the way navigation was done in that period. Jim Thompson jim2@jimthompson.net www.jimthompson.net Outgoing mail scanned by Norton Antivirus -----------------------------------------
