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SUBMITTER: Alvarez-Palau EJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6700343 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Data in brief 20190702
This data paper presents a reconstruction of historical ports and coastal routes in England and Wales during the age of the sailing ship, ending at the beginning of the twentieth century. The dataset was created by an amalgamation of twenty different sources, including geographical data, primary sources and secondary literature. Ports found in historical documents were listed by year of appearance and georeferenced. Ports that appear in multiple sources were listed only once. Coastal routes betw ...[more]