William Rea Furlong map collection.
Minefields, plate 1
William Rea Furlong was a United States Navy Rear Admiral during World War II, who also served in the Navy during World War I. The collection consists of World War I-era maps and charts. One chart from 1918 depicts German and British minefields along the coast of England and a portion of continental Europe. Other items are nautical charts of Aegean Sea with annotations.
- Date
- 1870
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Furlong, William Rea; Great Britain. Hydrographic Department
- Place
- minefields
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 9,163 × 10,214 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.
Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
Credit line
"William Rea Furlong map collection." (1870). Furlong, William Rea; Great Britain. Hydrographic Department. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Rea_Furlong_map_collection._LOC_2016586588-1.jpgNeed maps for a whole project? Add Find Any Map to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 121142.
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