ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing on the concepts discussed in the preceeding chapters of this book. The physical geography of the Atlantic Ocean is changing as its absolute ocean-space is increasing. Sailing past Start Point, where the channel becomes the Atlantic Ocean, and Lizard Point, Britain's most southerly promontory, or sounding creeks to find out whether they are safe overnight harbors are events that are part of the author Atlantic ocean-space. A great cape has a soul, with shadows and colors, very soft, very violent. The work of Maury on large-scale water movements provided a useful case study to explore various communication networks upon which he was able to draw and that gave legitimacy to his work in the eyes of sailors and merchants. The entwinement between the ocean-space, empire, power, and identity would assuredly foreground an interesting set of transoceanic interactions, though a specifically imperial interpretation of the ocean-space would not add to the scientific knowledge of the geographical ocean-space.
