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Volume 6, Number 3 (2005)

British Hydrographic Surveys in the Mediterranean in the early years of the Nineteenth Century

  • Andrew David
Submitted
August 13, 2013
Published
2005-12-12

Abstract

In the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars there was a resurgence of hydrographic activity around the world. In the Mediterranean the British effort was spearheaded by William Henry Smyth with Francis Beaufort also making a considerable contribution. Smyth also carried out joint surveys with Neapolitan and Austrian surveyors in the Adriatic and co-operated with the French Captain Pierre-Henri Guattier, in an early example of international co-operation in the field of hydrography.