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Lloyd’s Maritime Atlas 23rd Edition Featuring full colour world, ocean and regional maps the Lloyd’s Maritime Atlas 23rd Edition is the definitive guide to the location of the world’s ports and shipping places. Lloyd’s Maritime Atlas 23rd Edition includes: • FREE Electronic CD-ROM version • Global Maritime Statistics Section • World Distance Tables • Weather Hazards at Sea • International Load Line Zones • Geographic Port Index • Alphabetical Index
Commercial ports are shown in a clear and concise manner with particular attention being paid to the busiest shipping areas, where larger scale, more detailed maps are used. For more detailed information on individual ports, Lloyd’s Maritime Atlas 23rd Edition is fully crossreferenced with its sister publication, Lloyd’s Ports of the World.
Lloyd’s Maritime Atlas 23rd Edition
Each full colour regional map features distance tables and ports in bold type which are located at the front of the Atlas.These accurate figures have been extracted from the BP Marine Distance Tables and are quoted in nautical miles. Each map also details major road, rail links and airports serving a port or harbour.
LLOYD’S
Maritime Atlas OF WORLD PORTS AND SHIPPING PLACES
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CONTENTS
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PAGE INSIDE FRONT COVER WORLD DISTANCE TABLE
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USER GUIDE
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SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS
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GLOBAL MARITIME STATISTICS
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INDEX TO MAPS
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FOREWORD
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MAPS
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GEOGRAPHICAL INDEX
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ALPHABETICAL INDEX
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INDEX MAP
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WEATHER HAZARDS AT SEA
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INTERNATIONAL LOAD LINE ZONES
OCEAN MAPS 8 10 12 14 15
North Atlantic Ocean Atlantic and Indian Oceans Pacific Ocean Arctic Antarctic
REGIONAL MAPS 16
18 19 20 22 24 26 27 28 30 30 31
United Kingdom and Ireland Insets: Thames Humber, Trent Tyne, Tees Clyde English Channel North Sea Northern Europe Belgium, Netherlands and Germany Southern Scandinavia Baltic Sea Black Sea, Caspian Sea Mediterranean Sea Bay of Biscay Strait of Gibraltar Northern Mediterranean
Lloyd’s Maritime Atlas
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44 45 46 48 50 52 53 54 56 57 58 59 60 62 64 65 66 67 68 69 131
Gulf of Naples Gulf of Tunis Gulf of Venice Aegean Sea Inset: Piraeus Eastern Mediterranean Africa and the Middle East Inset: Azores West Africa Persian Gulf South Asia Inset: Hong Kong India Gulf of Thailand Malaysia, Indonesia Insets: Singapore, Brunei Philippines Japan China, Korea Australasia and Pacific Islands North America Pacific Northwest Southern California Eastern United States Inset: Bermuda Great Lakes Gulf of St. Lawrence Eastern Seaboard Inset: New York Central America Caribbean Sea South America River Plate, Southern Brazil Kiel Canal Rhine-Main-Danube Canal Suez Canal Panama Canal Geographical Index Alphabetical Index
FACT PANELS 18 23 23 25 26 27 38 56
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Seine Rhine Western Scheldt Lake Vanern Saimaa Canal Volga, Don Yangtze (Chiang Jiang) Great Lakes
57 62 64 65 66 67 68
St. Lawrence Seaway Amazon River Parana Kiel Canal Rhine-Main-Danube Canal Suez Canal Panama Canal
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