GEBCO, General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans
GEBCO, carta batimétrica general de los océanos
- Date
- 1903 (primera edición de 1905) · confidence high
- Place
- Monaco, Monaco
- Credited to
- Albert I of Monaco and John Murray
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What it is
An international project created by Prince Albert I to draw a chart of the depths of all oceans, with its first twenty-four sheets at 1:10,000,000. It is the reference ocean chart, which is updated today with multibeam sonar and satellite data.
What it led to
- global bathymetric charts and standardised names for seafloor features
- the Seabed 2030 project to map the whole ocean floor