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NOAA historical nautical chartslc00141-08-1903-ls

Straits of Mackinac with the Approaches Thereto from Lakes Huron and Michigan and the Entranve by the Detour Passage to the St. Marys River

Nautical chart showing coastlines, islands, soundings, navigation lines, compass roses, and printed notes.

Straits of Mackinac with the Approaches Thereto from Lakes Huron and Michigan and the Entranve by the Detour Passage to the St. Marys River (1903), Nautical Chart, scale 120000.

Visual descriptionwritten by a machine · unchecked

A large nautical chart shows coastlines, islands, waterways, depth soundings, navigation lines, compass roses, tables, and blocks of printed notes. The chart is printed in tan, green, and black, with a title panel near the lower center and additional text panels at the right and bottom.

A model wrote this. It was shown the image and the catalogue record together, and asked to keep them apart — what it saw is here, what the record told it is under "taken from the record" below. It is still wrong often enough to matter, about who is pictured, where, when, and what is happening. Read it as a way to find the image, never as evidence about it. If you can correct it, please do: write to michael.bommarito@gmail.com, or see how corrections work. Someone who recognises a face or a shoreline knows more than the model did.

NOAA Office of Coast Survey, Historical Map & Chart Collection

12,949 × 7,489 px · JPEG · 61.0 MB

Subjects and keywords

Text in the image

Transcribed from the object itself.

STRAITS OF MACKINAC
APPROACHES THERETO FROM LAKES HURON AND MICHIGAN
ENTRANCE BY THE DETOUR PASSAGE TO THE ST. MARYS RIVER

Taken from the record

Not observed in the image — supplied by the archive's own catalogue, and repeated here so the two stay distinguishable.

Dated 1903. Catalogued as a nautical chart at scale 1:200,000. Held by the NOAA Office of Coast Survey, Historical Map & Chart Collection.

Could not make out

Stated rather than guessed at.

Many small place labels, soundings, tables, and notes are too small to read.

Rights and credit

Public domain (NOAA Office of Coast Survey)

Credit this to NOAA Office of Coast Survey, Historical Map & Chart Collection when you use it.

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Provenance

Held by
NOAA Office of Coast Survey, Historical Map & Chart Collection
Collection
NOAA historical nautical charts
Date
1903
Original
https://historicalcharts.noaa.gov/includes/downloadsingle.php?filename=LC00141_08_1903_LS&fileExt=.jpg
Copy taken
2026-07-28
Title from
the holder's own catalogue · as recorded: “STRAITS OF MACKINAC WITH THE APPROACHES THERETO FROM LAKES HURON AND MICHIGAN AND THE ENTRANVE BY THE DETOUR PASSAGE TO THE ST. MARYS RIVER STRAITS OF MACKINAC WITH THE APPROACHES THERETO FROM LAKES HURON AND MICHIGAN AND THE ENTRANVE BY THE DETOUR PASSAGE TO THE ST. MARYS RIVER”
The holder's own catalogue record
chart numberLS141
edition0
filenameLC00141_08_1903_LS
locationMI
scale120000
titleSTRAITS OF MACKINAC WITH THE APPROACHES THERETO FROM LAKES HURON AND MICHIGAN AND THE ENTRANVE BY THE DETOUR PASSAGE TO THE ST. MARYS RIVER STRAITS OF MACKINAC WITH THE APPROACHES THERETO FROM LAKES HURON AND MICHIGAN AND THE ENTRANVE BY THE DETOUR PASSAGE TO THE ST. MARYS RIVER
typeNautical Chart
year1903

The file

Renditions held
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“STRAITS OF MACKINAC WITH THE APPROACHES THERETO FROM LAKES HURON AND MICHIGAN AND THE ENTRANVE BY THE DETOUR PASSAGE TO THE ST. MARYS RIVER STRAITS OF MACKINAC WITH THE APPROACHES THERETO FROM LAKES HURON AND MICHIGAN AND THE ENTRANVE BY THE DETOUR PASSAGE TO THE ST. MARYS RIVER”. 1903. NOAA Office of Coast Survey, Historical Map & Chart Collection. Beaver Island Archive, https://beaverislandarchive.org/media/chart/lc00141-08-1903-ls/. copy retrieved 2026-07-28.

Built only from what the archive recorded: the names on the record, the title as recorded, the date if one was recorded, this page, and the date the copy was taken. Nothing is filled in to satisfy a citation style.