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    A nautical chart or hydrographic chart is a graphic representation of a sea region or water body and adjacent coasts or banks. Depending on the scale of...
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    Portolan charts are nautical charts, first made in the 13th century in the Mediterranean basin and later expanded to include other regions. The word portolan...
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    navigator is in charge of maintaining the aircraft or ship's nautical charts, nautical publications, and navigational equipment, and they generally have...
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    surround) for a specific purpose are often known as charts, such as a nautical chart or aeronautical chart, typically spread over several map sheets. Other...
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    the color pattern of the compass rose found on many nautical charts. Insignia including nautical stars: United States Coast Guard officer rank insignia...
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    Knot (unit) (redirect from Knot (nautical))
    system. As a result, nautical miles and knots are convenient units to use when navigating an aircraft or ship. On a standard nautical chart using Mercator projection...
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    A chart datum is the water level surface serving as origin of depths displayed on a nautical chart and for reporting and predicting tide heights. A chart...
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  • Look up charting in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Charting may refer to: Chart, graphical representation of data Nautical chart, process of building...
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    monuments. It is particularly common in navigation systems, including nautical charts, non-directional beacons (NDB), VHF omnidirectional range (VOR) systems...
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    Cambridge History of Scandinavia. Cambridge University Press. p. 37. Nautical chart: International no. 1205, SE61, Baltic Sea, North, Sea of Åland. Jeppe...
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  • Piloting (section Charts)
    reference on the sea or on land, usually with reference to a nautical chart or aeronautical chart to obtain a fix of the position of the vessel or aircraft...
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    The Nautical Chart Department (Swedish: Sjökarteverket) is a building located on the islet Skeppsholmen in central Stockholm, Sweden. Built in 1871-1872...
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  • This glossary of nautical terms is an alphabetical listing of terms and expressions connected with ships, shipping, seamanship and navigation on water...
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  • mariner's handbook of written sailing directions. Before the advent of nautical charts, rutters were the primary store of geographic information for maritime...
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  • This glossary of nautical terms is an alphabetical listing of terms and expressions connected with ships, shipping, seamanship and navigation on water...
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    map, nautical chart, engineering drawing, or architectural drawing. A scale bar is common element of map layouts. On large scale maps and charts, those...
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    be located on the bridge or in a separate chart room, nearby. It includes a table sized for nautical charts where calculations of course and location...
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    Admiralty charts are nautical charts issued by the United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO) and subject to Crown Copyright. Over 3,500 Standard Nautical Charts...
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  • An aeronautical chart is a map designed to assist in the navigation of aircraft, much as nautical charts do for watercraft, or a roadmap does for drivers...
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    worldwide. Hydrographic/nautical chart – Topographic map of a maritime area and adjacent coastal regions General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans – Publicly...
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    Transverse Mercator List of map projections Mercator 1569 world map Nautical chart Omission of New Zealand from maps – often believed to be caused by the...
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    rectangular island in the 1424 portolan chart of Zuane Pizzigano. Thereafter, it routinely appeared in most nautical charts of the 15th century. After 1492,...
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    A nautical mile is a unit of length used in air, marine, and space navigation, and for the definition of territorial waters. Historically, it was defined...
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    useful for the navigator because this information can be used on the nautical chart together with simple geometrical techniques to aid in determining the...
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    where wild birds reign supreme". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 July 2020. "Nautical chart: International no. 1205, SE61, Baltic Sea, North, Sea of Åland" (PDF)...
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    signed Portuguese nautical chart. 1492: Cartographer Jorge de Aguiar made the oldest known signed and dated Portuguese nautical chart. 1537: Much of Portuguese...
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  • Hydrographic officers who produce of nautical publications also provide a system to inform mariners of changes that effect the chart. In the US and the UK, corrections...
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    alternative to paper nautical charts for navigation by ships. IMO refers to similar systems not meeting the regulations as Electronic Chart Systems (ECSs)....
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  • The least charted depth is 9 m (30 ft) above the reef. This sounding was one of only a few that were ever incorporated into US nautical charts, having been...
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    Fathom (category Nautical terminology)
    fathoms. Most modern nautical charts indicate depth in metres. However, the U.S. Hydrographic Office uses feet and fathoms. A nautical chart will always explicitly...
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