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Article Nº 1792 Cross-reference · Vol. II · p. 237

Hydrography

Original title: Hidrografia

See Geodesy.

See · Nº 1644 · Geophysics, oceanography and geodesy Geodesy Summary of an article by the naval officer Pires de Matos (1940) on the geodetic triangulations of the Madeira archipelago (1914, 1936) and the astronomical observations used to place its hydrographic charts on the international ellipsoid. It matters as a record of how the islands were first accurately mapped.

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