Abstract
Abstract Using the example of four maps, this essay discusses how the cartography of the oceans enabled perceptions of the earth as a whole and as a continuous realm of possibilities during the nineteenth century. Nautical charts, produced for practical navigation and committed to the precision ethics of physical geography, facilitated the participation of ports such as Bremen in overseas trade. Ocean maps, aiming at providing an overview and filling sea areas with scientific, political, or travel-related information, visualized thinking in global contexts and positioned marine and terrestrial spaces in new relations. Finally, maps of island colonies show the problems that accompanied the overseas communication of knowledge and how cartographers, by overwriting uncertainties, also inscribed ignorance into maps. All in all, from the perspective of the cartography of the oceans, a specific globality emerges that can be regarded as a distinctive cartographic reality.
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