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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea map, route, chapters, and distances

This page collects the full Mapped Fiction route for Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea. The interactive map follows the journey from Fifth Avenue Hotel to Lofoten shore, while the notes below make the route crawlable and easy to audit.

Route overview

The mapped route uses Carriage, Frigate, Swim, Submarine, Diving suit, Boat, Foot, Tunnel, Maelstrom. Distances are either explicit in the text, geodesic between known locations, or estimated from the route notes where the book gives a fictional or approximate path.

• New York to Brooklyn pier: Fifth Avenue Hotel to Brooklyn pier, 6.5 km by Carriage.
• Abraham Lincoln search cruise: Brooklyn pier to Japan encounter, 33,847 km by Frigate.
• Castaways on the Nautilus: Japan encounter to Nautilus boarding, 1.0 km by Swim.
• Black River to Crespo: Nautilus boarding to Crespo Island, 2,897 km by Submarine.
• Crespo sea-floor walk: Crespo Island to Crespo submarine forest, 4.0 km by Diving suit.
• Four thousand leagues under the Pacific: Crespo Island to Vanikoro, 16,400 km by Submarine.
• Vanikoro to Torres Strait: Vanikoro to Torres Strait reef, 3,621 km by Submarine.
• Gueboroar landing: Torres Strait reef to Gueboroar Island, 5.0 km by Boat.

View the complete route table for Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea.

Chapter maps

1. Chapter 1: A Shifting Reef
2. Chapter 2: Pro and Con
3. Chapter 3: I Form My Resolution
4. Chapter 4: Ned Land
5. Chapter 5: At a Venture
6. Chapter 6: At Full Steam
7. Chapter 7: An Unknown Species of Whale
8. Chapter 8: Mobilis in Mobili
9. Chapter 9: Ned Land's Tempers
10. Chapter 10: The Man of the Seas
11. Chapter 11: All by Electricity
12. Chapter 12: Some Figures
13. Chapter 13: The Black River
14. Chapter 14: A Note of Invitation
15. Chapter 15: A Walk on the Bottom of the Sea
16. Chapter 16: A Submarine Forest
17. Chapter 17: Four Thousand Leagues under the Pacific
18. Chapter 18: Vanikoro
19. Chapter 19: Torres Straits
20. Chapter 20: A Few Days on Land
21. Chapter 21: Captain Nemo's Thunderbolt
22. Chapter 22: Aegri Somnia
23. Chapter 23: The Coral Kingdom
24. Chapter 24: The Indian Ocean
25. Chapter 25: A Novel Proposal of Captain Nemo's
26. Chapter 26: A Pearl of Ten Millions
27. Chapter 27: The Red Sea
28. Chapter 28: The Arabian Tunnel
29. Chapter 29: The Grecian Archipelago
30. Chapter 30: The Mediterranean in Forty-Eight Hours
31. Chapter 31: Vigo Bay
32. Chapter 32: A Vanished Continent
33. Chapter 33: The Submarine Coal-Mines
34. Chapter 34: The Sargasso Sea
35. Chapter 35: Cachalots and Whales
36. Chapter 36: The Iceberg
37. Chapter 37: The South Pole
38. Chapter 38: Accident or Incident?
39. Chapter 39: Want of Air
40. Chapter 40: From Cape Horn to the Amazon
41. Chapter 41: The Poulps
42. Chapter 42: The Gulf Stream
43. Chapter 43: From Latitude 47 deg 24 min to Longitude 17 deg 28 min
44. Chapter 44: A Hecatomb
45. Chapter 45: The Last Words of Captain Nemo
46. Chapter 46: Conclusion

Primary source

The map is grounded in Project Gutenberg #164. Source links on route and chapter pages point to the relevant book chapters where available.