World map with ocean physiography published in 1887 in Appletons' American Standard Geographies Physical Geography , pp

World map with ocean physiography published in 1887 in Appletons’ American Standard Geographies Physical Geography , pp. 20-21. Note “Alaska Deep” and “Alaska Rise” off the coast of South America. These were discovered by George Belknap on the USS Alaska in 1882 and were the first published names for the Peru-Chile Trench and Chile Rise.

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