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
An extensive bay, westward of Cape Herschel, I have named after Captain Washington, the hydrographer, a steadfast supporter of this final search.
From In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions by Francis Leopold McClintock
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
His father, John Bouguer, one of the best hydrographers of his time, was regius professor of hydrography at Croisic in lower Brittany, and author of a treatise on navigation.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" by Various
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
It makes no change to the great majority of navigators and hydrographers, except the very simple addition of twelve hours, or of 180° to all longitudes.
Cartier, Jacques, in the Gulf, 16, 46; compared with modern hydrographers, 47, 177; his ship, 48-9.
From All Afloat A Chronicle of Craft and Waterways by William Charles Henry Wood
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