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In an unbelievable wild goose chase, Cordell was sent out repeatedly to search for a shoal about 80 miles SW of the Farallon Islands. His searches were only part of an extensive effort that eventually showed there is no such shoal.
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Schmieder, R.W. (2019). Vitula Shoal 1868. In: Edward Cordell and the Discovery of Cordell Bank. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02029-3_22
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