Although initially Russiancartography could not glory in original work _ the "Atlas Marxa" (1905), for example, is merely a translation of Debes' Neuer Handatlas - the large Atlas Mira ("World Atlas", 1954, 2nd ed. 1967, 3rd 1999), with some 200,000 names, also in English translation of the last two editions as "The World Atlas", meant a very special achievement. A similar Russian project Bolshoi Sovietskii Atlas Mira, intented to be the most comprehensive atlas of modern times, remained with two out of three planned volumes (1937/39) incomplete owing to wartime.
Marine sediments on the walls of the grotto enabled scientists to estimate its submersion around or after 10,000 BC.
The submarine topography of the Bahamian region shown in the huge Russian AtlasMira by detailed isobaths, catches the attention of a topographer.
The sea floor on the northern side of Cuba, Haiti and Puerto Rico indicates a definite system of submerged valleys of ancient rivers, combined with sunken mountain ranges.
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