Over five hundred years of maps depicting the North Pacific Ocean and the lands that border it have been collected into this stunning new atlas by Derek Hayes, author of the critically acclaimed Historical Atlas of the Pacific Northwest. From antique charts of the sixteenth century to modern satellite images of today, this atlas presents Dutch, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Russian, American, Spanish, French, and British maps collected from archives and libraries around the world. It covers the major voyages of exploration of Magellan, Bering, Cook, Vancouver, Perry, and others, and includes modern satellite, computer-generated, and other images that show the nature of the ocean and the seabed in astonishing detail. Each of the 285 maps in this amazing collection helps tell the story of how the secrets of the enigmatic North Pacific Ocean have been probed and revealed.