Kōrero: Charting the sea floor

Ētahi atu tūhononga, pae tukutuku hoki

• Charts – NIWA

  The National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) is New Zealand’s main producer of marine and lake charts for scientific purposes.

• Land Information New Zealand hydrographic information

  This site contains information, including charts, published in the New Zealand Nautical Almanac, produced annually by Land Information New Zealand (LINZ).

• NOAA ocean explorer: history

  An informative overview, illustrated with maps and photographs, of the history of ocean navigation and charting.

• The voyage of the Challenger

  A website describing the four-year voyage of the Challenger, which left England in 1872 and helped launch the scientific study of the world’s oceans.

Ētahi whakaaro puaki, takenga

• Carter, L. ‘Acoustical characterisation of sea-floor sediments and its relationship to active sedimentary processes in Cook Strait, New Zealand’. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 35 (1992): 289–300.

• Carter, L., and R. M. Carter. ‘Beneath the seas: the Otago–Southland continental margin.’ In The natural history of southern New Zealand, edited by J. Darby and others. Dunedin: Otago University Press, 2004.

• Cotton, C. A. Geomorphology: an introduction to the study of landforms. 7th ed., rev. Christchurch: Whitcombe & Tombs, 1958.

• Maling, P. B. Early charts of New Zealand, 1542–1851. Wellington: A. H. & A. W. Reed, 1969.

• New Zealand pilot. 16th ed. Taunton: Hydrographer of the Navy, 2004.