La Jolla map dealer Alex Clausen knew there was something unusual about the nautical chart he spotted at a Getty estate sale. His careful eye uncovered a 14th century treasure he purchased for a ...

This week on “ALL OVER THE MAP” Maritime atlases – govt nautical charts in book format for small boats – first appeared in the NW in the 1950s.

The new products are particularly valuable for shallow water navigation, where official nautical map products, primarily designed for commercial shipping lanes, may lack detail. Available in ...

Left: A 1774 nautical chart. Right: ... He sprinkled his maps with miscellany that later charts would omit: where sea turtles made their nests, or the colors and consistency of sand.

One of the few original copies of historic maps that the Bay County History Museum acquired is the earliest American navigation map of St. Andrew Bay. The other bays, East, West and North are omitted.

It will still chart rocks, shipwrecks and other hazards, but boaters and fishermen will have to use electronic maps or private on-demand printing to get the information.

But the oceans of yesteryear really were more plentiful than they are today, and a new analysis of 240 year-old nautical charts hints at just how dramatically things have changed.

French, British, Dutch, Portuguese, Jesuit – collector Robert Nield’s nautical charts and maps, painstakingly drawn and coloured, show which European colonisers dominated the seas of southern ...