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Bering Sea Maps Are Now Obsolete BERING SEA MAPS ARE NOW OBSOLETE Find New Ocean Deep And Link Connecting Continents Seattle, Oct. 5.—UP)—All Bering sea maps are now "obsolete," Commander L. V. Ktelhorn of the coast guard cutter Chelan reported today, and a new north Pacific ocean depth of...
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ftwashstatelib:oai:content.libraries.wsu.edu:clipping/101898 2023-05-15T15:42:45+02:00 Northwest History. Alaska. Science. United States. The Lewiston Tribune: 1936-10-05 Bering Sea Maps Are Now Obsolete 1936-10-05 http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/101898 English eng nwh-sh-14-13-21 http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/101898 http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0 Copyright not evaluated. Contact original newspaper publisher for copyright information. Northwest History Alaska Box 14 Alaska Surveys and Census Northwest Pacific--History--20th Century Text Clippings 1936 ftwashstatelib 2021-07-26T19:23:25Z Bering Sea Maps Are Now Obsolete BERING SEA MAPS ARE NOW OBSOLETE Find New Ocean Deep And Link Connecting Continents Seattle, Oct. 5.—UP)—All Bering sea maps are now "obsolete," Commander L. V. Ktelhorn of the coast guard cutter Chelan reported today, and a new north Pacific ocean depth of more than four miles has been found south of the Aleutian chain. The Chelan has returned from the annual summer Bering sea patrol. Commander Kielhom said the ocean survey work had proved there was no "gateway" south out of the Bering sea to the north Pacific. Last summer, the Chelan also discovered an immense undersea mountain range in the Bering sea. Alaska-Asia Tietip Found. "We found that instead of deep water lying between the Komandorski and Medini islands (off Kamchatka on the Siberian coast) and the westward end of the Aleutian chain, the water is shoal, tying Alaska to Asia," he said. "It proves the whole chain of islands is of the same geologic period and origin." A new ocean deep of 4,199 fathoms, was found in the "Aleutian trough," south of the Aleutian Islands, near the regular north Pacific steamship "The Chelan's work for the past two summers makes present Bering sea maps obsolete," he said. Text Bering Sea Kamchatka Alaska Aleutian Islands Washington State University: WSU Libraries Digital Collections Bering Sea Pacific |
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Bering Sea Maps Are Now Obsolete BERING SEA MAPS ARE NOW OBSOLETE Find New Ocean Deep And Link Connecting Continents Seattle, Oct. 5.—UP)—All Bering sea maps are now "obsolete," Commander L. V. Ktelhorn of the coast guard cutter Chelan reported today, and a new north Pacific ocean depth of more than four miles has been found south of the Aleutian chain. The Chelan has returned from the annual summer Bering sea patrol. Commander Kielhom said the ocean survey work had proved there was no "gateway" south out of the Bering sea to the north Pacific. Last summer, the Chelan also discovered an immense undersea mountain range in the Bering sea. Alaska-Asia Tietip Found. "We found that instead of deep water lying between the Komandorski and Medini islands (off Kamchatka on the Siberian coast) and the westward end of the Aleutian chain, the water is shoal, tying Alaska to Asia," he said. "It proves the whole chain of islands is of the same geologic period and origin." A new ocean deep of 4,199 fathoms, was found in the "Aleutian trough," south of the Aleutian Islands, near the regular north Pacific steamship "The Chelan's work for the past two summers makes present Bering sea maps obsolete," he said. |
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