Seven-island maritime reference context: NOAA bathymetric tint and contours, GNIS named bays and harbors, and locally mapped OSM waterfront features; not a navigational chart.
Visual descriptionwritten by a machine · unchecked
A printed map shows several pale landmasses outlined in dark lines against a blue shaded background with bathymetric contours and a latitude-longitude grid. Small symbols mark waterfront features, and a red route line runs from the upper central shoreline toward the lower-right edge. A legend, scale bar, title, subtitle, and numerous small labels appear around the map.
A model wrote this. It was shown the image and the catalogue record together, and asked to keep them apart — what it saw is here, what the record told it is under "taken from the record" below. It is still wrong often enough to matter, about who is pictured, where, when, and what is happening. Read it as a way to find the image, never as evidence about it. If you can correct it, please do: write to michael.bommarito@gmail.com, or see how corrections work. Someone who recognises a face or a shoreline knows more than the model did.
Drawn from the archive's own data in EPSG:3078. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); USGS GNIS, USGS 3DEP, and NOAA NCEI Great Lakes bathymetry (public domain).
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Coasts, harbors, and navigation context Seven-island maritime reference context · not a navigational chart
Taken from the record
Not observed in the image — supplied by the archive's own catalogue, and repeated here so the two stay distinguishable.
Catalogued as an atlas plate in the Maritime Atlas collection. The archive record describes it as a seven-island maritime reference map using NOAA bathymetric tint and contours, GNIS named bays and harbors, and locally mapped OpenStreetMap waterfront features; it is explicitly not a navigational chart. The drawing is credited to the archive's own data, with additional data from OpenStreetMap, USGS GNIS, USGS 3DEP, and NOAA NCEI Great Lakes bathymetry.
Could not make out
Stated rather than guessed at.
The small legend and many geographic labels are visible but not fully legible at this image size.
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CC BY 4.0 for the drawing; underlying data under its own terms (see credit)
Credit this to Drawn from the archive's own data in EPSG:3078. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); USGS GNIS, USGS 3DEP, and NOAA NCEI Great Lakes bathymetry (public domain). when you use it.
Stated by this archive, which drew the plate.
Provenance
- Held by
- Beaver Island Archive
- Collection
- Atlas plates
- Drawn by
- scripts/make_maritime_atlas.py
- Title from
- this archive, which drew the plate
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In this archive
- Written aboutCoasts, harbors, and navigation context of the Beaver Island archipelago
- DepictsBeaver Island
- DepictsGarden Island
- DepictsHigh Island
- DepictsHog Island
- DepictsNorth Fox Island
- DepictsSouth Fox Island
- Published onAtlas
- Published on/atlas/maritime/
Cite this
“Coasts, harbors, and navigation context of the Beaver Island archipelago”. Beaver Island Archive. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/plate/archipelago-maritime/.
Built only from what the archive recorded: the names on the record, the title as recorded, the date if one was recorded, this page, and the date the copy was taken. Nothing is filled in to satisfy a citation style.