Inventing the Grand Banks: A deep chart

• Published in: Geo: Geography and Environment
• Main Authors: Charles Travis, Francis Ludlow, Al Matthews, Kevin Lougheed, Kieran Rankin, Bernard Allaire, Robert Legg, Patrick Hayes, Richard Breen, John Nicholls, Lydia Towns, Poul Holm
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2020
• Subjects: Benjamin Franklin’s Gulp Stream Chart; Cabot Voyage; Deep Chart; Fish Revolution 1500-1800; Grand Banks; Humanities GIS; Environmental sciences; GE1-350; Geography (General); G1-922; Cabot; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.85; https://doaj.org/article/6b73e9a7b14f486f906310a170b54cbc

As a feature of the Fish Revolution (1400–1700), the early modern “invention” of the Grand Banks in literary and cartographical documents facilitated a massive and unprecedented extraction of cod from the waters of the north Atlantic and created the Cod/Sack trade Triangle. This overlapped with the...