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| Data source: Climatological Database for the World’s Oceans (James Cheshire) |
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
A bit of visual history
Interesting to see the complete lack of information for the Mediterranean region. The map is a visual depiction of British, Dutch and Spanish shipping routes in the period from 1750 to 1800. The sparsity of ships travelling in the Mediterranean shows the reality at the time of the dramatic impact of the Berber pirates had on European shipping.
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