1849 U.S. Coast Survey Map of Nantucket and the Davis Shoals. Preliminary Sketch Showing the positions of Davis's South Shoal and Other Dangers Recently Discovered by the Coast Survey and the sounding on the Old South Shoal, Bass Rip, Old Man, Pochic

Description

This is a modern reprint. This beautiful and important sea chart or map depicts the waters immediately surrounding the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts, including Davis Shoal, Old South Shoal, and others. Uncommon, highly significant, and often under appreciated, this is 1849 map is the one of the first U.S. Coast Survey chart to depict the shoals off Nantucket. Though the unpredictable waters off Nantucket were long a nemesis to sailing vessels on the important London New York shipping routes, they had never been properly charted. The harsh conditions, including rapid unexpected swells and frequent heavy fog, contrived to make the hydrographic survey of the hazards south of Nantucket one of the most dangerous and challenging projects of the early coast survey. floating stations by buoys. The first severe storm not only stops the actual sounding work, but is apt to break up the system entirely by removing or changing the position of these marks. The weather fit for surveying on that peculiarly stormy part of the coast is but a small fragment of each summer, and the harbors which must necessarily be sought as a refuge on the coming up of storms, which cannot be weathered in such exposed situations, are distant.. From Wikimedia Commons

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