hydrographer
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hydrographers
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His injuries, along with his work as a government hydrographer, exempted him from military duty during World War II.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 8, 2020
Her holdings feature items dating back to the 17th century, and include 18th-century works by the French hydrographer and philosopher Jacques-Nicolas Bellin.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 19, 2019
A generation later, Irish hydrographer Francis Beaufort orchestrated one of the greatest mapping exercises ever attempted.
From Nature ● Dec. 18, 2018
“In terms of cruise ships, more and more are going in the Arctic,” says Denis Hains, the hydrographer general of Canada.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2017
For our lectures the hydrographer again made for the College two very large and handsome maps.
From From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power hydrographers reported snowpack in the Eastern Sierra to be 24% of normal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 14, 2026
What was there in his manner, or the shape of his forehead, or his expression, that rendered her perfectly certain that he had nothing to fear from all the hydrographers ever born?
From The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols by William Black
From that period until the steamer passed into p.201 the hands of the Imperial hydrographers, the history of the Beaver was that of most of the Company’s trading vessels.
From Some Reminiscences of old Victoria by Edgar Fawcett
The hydrographers have given enlarged plans of Yáhárr and Jibbah, ports close to each other; while they have ignored the far more deserving Sharm Dumayghah.
From The Land of Midian — Volume 2 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
The wandering island was moving in a westerly direction, borne along by a current unmarked on the chart, and unknown to hydrographers, which was evidently carrying it towards Behring Strait.
From The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude by N. D'Anvers
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