Maury,Matthew Fontaine

Maury,Matthew Fontaine
Mau·ry (môrʹē), Matthew Fontaine. 1806-1873.
American naval officer and oceanographer who charted the currents and winds of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans and wrote the pioneering Physical Geography of the Sea (1855).

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