Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, Part 2, Chapter 7 summary
Part 2, Chapter 7 of 46 · 4 min to read the chapter
In Chapter 7, the Nautilus crosses the Mediterranean in forty-eight hours, moving too fast for Ned Land to attempt an escape while Captain Nemo remains unseen. The narrator and Conseil examine an underwater ridge and discuss the earth’s cooling before the vessel enters the Atlantic through Gibraltar.
What happens
- The Nautilus speeds westward from Greece, and the narrator suspects that Captain Nemo dislikes the surrounding inhabited shores.
- Ned Land cannot launch the dinghy safely because of the vessel’s speed and its nighttime surfacing.
- Near Sicily and Tunis, the Nautilus carefully skirts a shallow underwater ridge linking the two continental shores.
- Conseil and the narrator discuss submerged barriers, volcanic activity, and the earth’s gradual loss of internal heat.
- The Nautilus descends into the second Mediterranean basin, then uses Gibraltar’s outward undercurrent to reach the Atlantic.
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