topographer

Example Sentences

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As the 16th-century French topographer Pierre Gilles observed, the Bosporus “is the first creator of Byzantium, greater and more important than Byzas,” the founder of Byzantium.

From New York Times

Thinking it would make a good triangulation point, he sent his chief topographer and two assistants to set up a survey station on its peak in the dry heat of a July morning.

From Los Angeles Times

To remedy this, Grosvenor hired topographer Albert Bumstead, who had recently mapped the region around the newly discovered Inca ruins of Machu Picchu in Peru, to establish the Society’s cartography department in 1915.

From National Geographic

"It is a serious challenge to survey this cave," says Thomas Arbenz, a Swiss speleologist and cave topographer.

From BBC

Perhaps Pollock was a kind of topographer himself, charting some inner territory — until he gave up on the project of representation altogether.

From New York Times