The Story of Islands That Have Vanished from Nautical Charts
by
Henry Stommel
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
Hundreds of islands that once appeared on nautical charts and general atlases are now known to have vanished — or never even existed. How were they detected in the first place? Henry Stommel, an oceanographer and senior scientist at Massachusetts' Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, chronicles his...