Grand Banks Charting 1504-1787

Charles Travis

An animation of fishery chartings extracted from nautical maps of Newfoundland’s Gran Banks published between 1504 and 1787. Fishery charts extracted by Keving Lougheed, Map and Animation by Charles Travis 2020.

Categories of this resource

Cartography, Charles Travis, Cod, Consumption of Marine Life, Digital Humanities, Early Modern Period, Herring, Mining the Ocean, Northwest Atlantic, Regional and Global Overviews, Video, Written sources

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