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 * Greetings,
 *         I have a friend, working on a Dissertation, who is looking for maps
 * and nautical charts for the Mariana Islands near and North of Gaum in the
 * Pacific Ocean. She is tring to locate historical shipwrecks before 1914.
 * Foreign sources (like Japan) would be acceptable.
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 *         Does anyone have such maps, or know of sources that might?
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 * Thanks,
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 * Chris Wilkes
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Greetings,
 
Regarding Chris Wilkes' request for maps/charts of the Marianas and Guam
showing historical shipwrecks, maybe we might be of some help.  Some years
ago our library obtained the archives of the former Trust Territory of the
Pacific Islands (TTPI).  Included among these many items are nautical,
topographic, cadastral maps, and also aerial photographs of the TTPI.  Most
of the maps and charts are post-WWII although I've come across a few that are
earlier.
 
Our collection also has a handful of historic nauticals dating to the 1940s
for that area.  Some of these charts are based on early surveys, sometimes of
Japanese surveys from much earlier.
 
Please contact me further if you are interested.  Also, the TTPI collection
may be accessed thru our library's PAC via CARL (Colorado Alliance of
Research Libraries).
 
Aloha,
Ross Togashi
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Hamilton Library   Map Collection
[log in to unmask]     ooohh...who left me that pre-Capt. Cook
                                       chart of the Hawaiian Islands on my
                                       doorsteps on the 1st of April?  :)