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High Island coasts, harbors, and navigation context

Map: High Island coasts, harbors, and navigation context.

Island-scale maritime reference context for High Island: NOAA bathymetry, GNIS named bays and harbors, and locally mapped OSM waterfront features; not a navigational chart.

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A vertically oriented map plate shows a large pale landmass surrounded by blue water, with shaded terrain, contour lines, shoreline detail, and faint latitude-longitude grid lines. A legend appears in the upper left, and a scale bar runs along the lower edge. Small labels identify a bay and mapped maritime features, while source and attribution text appears below 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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High Island coasts, harbors, and navigation context
Island-scale maritime reference context · not a navigational chart
Dated source context
OSM-mapped pier / breakwater
OSM-mapped lighthouse
OSM-mapped beacon
OSM-mapped ferry terminal
GNIS named bay / harbor
High Island Bay
Sources: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL 1.0); USGS GNIS, USGS 3DEP, and NOAA NCEI Great Lakes bathymetry (public domain).

Taken from the record

Not observed in the image — supplied by the archive's own catalogue, and repeated here so the two stay distinguishable.

The catalogue identifies this as an atlas plate drawn from archive data in EPSG:3078, using OpenStreetMap, USGS GNIS, USGS 3DEP, and NOAA NCEI Great Lakes bathymetry data. It is described as reference context rather than a navigational chart.

Could not make out

Stated rather than guessed at.

The smallest coordinate labels and some footer text are not legible.

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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.

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“High Island coasts, harbors, and navigation context”. Beaver Island Archive. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/plate/high-island-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.