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ORIGINAL ANTIQUE MAP TERRITORY NAUTICAL CHART Georges Bank and Nantucket Shoals
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ORIGINAL ANTIQUE MAP TERRITORY NAUTICAL CHART [This map is not a reproduction or from a scan, and it's printed on a thick paper matting surface. My Map collection, passed down by my grandfather, has been stored flat and folded]Georges Bank and Nantucket Shoals
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Nantucket Shoals
is an area of dangerously shallow water in the
Atlantic Ocean
that extends from
Nantucket Island
,
Massachusetts
, eastward for 23 miles (37 km) and southeastward for 40 miles (64 km); in places water depth can be as shallow as 3 feet (0.91 m).
[1]
Depth soundings are unpredictable due to the constant change caused by strong currents, which are rotary rather than reversing.
[2]
The
shoals
lie just off of a major
transatlantic
shipping lane
. Numerous ships have been wrecked here, most recently and notably the
oil tanker
Argo Merchant
in December 1976. Until 1983, the edge of the shoals was guarded by the
Nantucket Lightship
.
Georges Bank
(formerly known as
St. Georges Bank
) is a large elevated area of the sea floor between
Cape Cod
,
Massachusetts
(United States), and
Cape Sable Island
,
Nova Scotia
(Canada). It separates the
Gulf of Maine
from the
Atlantic Ocean
.
The origin of its name is obscure. The 1610 Velasco map, prepared for
King James I of England
, used the name "S. Georges Banck", a common practice when the name of the English patron saint,
St. George
, was sprinkled around the English-colonized world. By the 1850s, it was known simply as Georges Bank.