hydrographer
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hydrographers
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As a city hydrographer, he concluded that skiing didn’t come any better than on the massive extinct volcano with steep chutes on all sides that caught storms like a sail.
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
"Catching you, too, is it, Victor?" queried the hydrographer, dropping easily into his attitude of affable cynicism.
From The City of Numbered Days by Francis Lynde
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
The hydrographers would look puzzled and shake their heads if one asked where in the Gulf waters lay Poor Man's Rock.
From Poor Man's Rock by Frank Tenney Johnson
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 old Italian hydrographers make frequent mention of the increased degradation which has followed the clearing away of natural woods in several parts of Italy.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
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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