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Henry Stommel (1920–1992)

Author of Lost Islands: The Story of Islands That Have Vanished from Nautical Charts

8 Works 102 Members 2 Reviews

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Works by Henry Stommel

Lost Islands: The Story of Islands That Have Vanished from Nautical Charts (1984) 43 copies

Volcano Weather: The Story of 1816, the Year Without a Summer (1983) 29 copies

A View of the Sea: A Discussion Between a Chief Engineer and an Oceanographer About the Machinery of the Ocean… (1987) 14 copies

The Gulf Stream; a physical and dynamical description (1972) 6 copies

An Intro Coriolis Force05/96: An Introduction to the Coriolis Force (1989) 4 copies

Science of the seven seas (2012) 3 copies

Collected Works of Henry M. Stommel (1996) 2 copies

Science of the Seven Seas 1 copy

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Canonical name: Stommel, Henry
Legal name: Stommel, Henry Melson
Other names: Stommel, Harry
Birthdate: 1920-09-27
Date of death: 1992-01-17
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Education: Yale University (BS, 1942)
Occupations: oceanographer
Relationships: Brown, Elizabeth (wife)
Organizations: National Academy of Sciences
American Astronomy Society
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Geophysical Union
Awards and honors: New York Academy of Sciences Children's Science Book Award for Volcano Weather: The Story of 1816, The Year without a Summer [1816]
Crafoord Prize (1983)
National Medal of Honor (1989)

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Lost Islands: The Story of Islands That Have… by Henry Stommel

Surveying the British admiralty charts, Stommel goes through the various islands that were included in earlier revisions only to be expunged in subsequent ones, because they turned out not to exist. Most were duplications of real islands, which got misplaced due to various navigational errors, some were fog banks or icebergs misidentified as islands, a few were apparently hoaxes, and one or two may actually have once existed only to disappear beneath the waves.

A delightful tour among cartographical mirages.… (more)

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Lost Islands: The Story of Islands That Have… by Henry Stommel

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Works: 8
Members: 102
Popularity: #187,251
Rating: 4.1

Reviews: 2
ISBNs: 15

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