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This book is based on papers selected and edited from those presented at the Sixth International Congress on the History of Oceanography (ICHO VI), held at Qingdao, People’s Republic of China, from August 15–20, 1998. The manuscript was produced as a result of a three-year joint project between the First Institute of Oceanography (FIO, Qingdao) of China’s State Oceanographic Administration (SOA), and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).