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The 25-year-old West Point graduate was a noncombatant, attached to Harney’s expedition as a mapmaker and topographer.—
Tim Madigan,
Smithsonian Magazine,
22 Oct. 2024 Within a week, the town pulsed with surveyors, hydrologists, topographers and, yes, lawyers.—
Eduardo Porter,
Washington Post,
1 July 2024 Eva, a young student, Héctor, a topographer who drives a Google Street View Car, and Saturio, a farmer, get involved in a series of mysterious disparitions that have taken place in the same region of Soria, Spain, at different times.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
29 July 2022 Valleys for topographers and whaling ships, a glacier for a shipmaster’s wife, and a fjord for a Dutch whaling skipper.—
Juliana Hanle,
Scientific American,
18 Nov. 2019