Asia

Alternative Title:

Approaches to the Yangze River

Description:

From surveys by the Chinese Maritime Customs between 1916 and 1930 ; published May, 1916, at the Hydrographic Office, under the authority of the Secretary of the Navy. Depths shown by soundings, tints, and isolines; relief by contours and spot heights. 1940 variation compasses. Tidal information and "average direction and rate of tidal streams" tables, buoy legend, navigational notes. Shows low water areas, islands, drainage, lights, vegetation/wetlands, roads, railroads, telegraph cables. Various points of interest, such as "chapel," "wreck," "submerged masonry." No. 3218.

Creator:

United States, Hydrographic Office. and China, Hai guan zong shui wu si shu.

Publisher:

U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office,

Provider:

Stanford

Resource Class:

Maps

Subject:

Navigation, Coasts, and Rivers

Theme:

Land cover

Date Issued:

1940

Spatial Coverage:

China--Yangtze River, China--Shanghai, China, and Asia

Rights:

Image from the Map Collections courtesy Stanford University Libraries. This item is in the public domain. There are no restrictions on use. If you have questions, please contact Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections at brannerlibrary@stanford.edu.

Rights Holder:

This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission.

License:

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

Access Rights:

Public

Format:

JPEG2000

Georeferenced:

More details at:

https://purl.stanford.edu/bj613qc8978