Nautical Charts

NOAA Office of Coast Survey

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Overview

Included here are entries related to NOAA nautical charts (also known as navigational charts) and publications for U.S. coasts and the Great Lakes. These charts, which were developed to support safe navigation, number over a thousand and cover 95,000 miles of shoreline and 3.4 million square nautical miles.