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Subject: Re: somalia nautical charts & piracy
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 13:44:24 -0500
From: erno bonebakker <[log in to unmask]>
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Hi Alice: I there may not be any charts, only descriptions of corridors
such as that in the following:
http://www.nga.mil/MSISiteContent/StaticFiles/MISC/wwtts/wwttw_20081128100000.txt
for more background, you might start with this site:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/pirates.htm
hope this helps!
mapster and mariner
Regards,
Erno R Bonebakker
91 Park St.
Portland, ME 04101
207.871.0048
please note new telephone number
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Maps-L Moderator <[log in to unmask]
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: somalia nautical charts & piracy
Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 11:58:56 -0500
From: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
I have asked local chart dealers here in New York, who sell charts from
around the world, about recent charts showing the protected safety lanes
off Somalia, where shipping may theoretically! pass without danger from
pirates. No luck.
Is anyone aware of such charts being available? In one of the many news
articles about this story in the NY Times or Washington Post, such
charts
were described very briefly and vaguely. [Naturally I pitched the paper
without thinking to save the info...]
I suspect the source might be the British Admiralty, but am not
sure, and
it could be they are not paper but electronic charts.
Just curious...as I would like to obtain an example of same for our map
collections.
Alice C. Hudson
Chief, The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division
The Humanities and Social Sciences Library
The New York Public Library
5th Avenue & 42nd Street, Room 117
New York, NY 10018-2788
[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>, 212-930-0589, fax
212-930-0027
Hours: 1-7:30 Tu & Wed, 1-6 Thurs-Sat. Closed Sun, Mon.
http://nypl.org/research/chss/map/map.html
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