Nautilus (fictional submarine)

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Nautilus is Captain Nemo’s advanced, electrically powered submarine from Jules Verne’s novel "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," famed as one of literature’s earliest and most iconic depictions of futuristic undersea travel.

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instanceOf Jules Verne character
fictional submarine
vehicle in literature
appearsIn The Mysterious Island
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
armament electric rifles (used by crew on dives)
ram for sinking ships
captainedBy Captain Nemo
creator Jules Verne
crewSize about 20 men
designFeature airlock for diving operations
art gallery
cigar-shaped hull
double hull
library
observation lounge with large viewing windows
pipe organ
ram bow
energySource electric batteries
sea-based sodium extraction (fictional)
firstAppearanceForm novel
firstAppearanceYear 1870
foodSource resources harvested from the sea
genre science fiction
homeBase secret island base (The Mysterious Island)
hullMaterial steel
inspired later fictional submarines
real-world submarine naming conventions
languageOfOrigin French
lifeSupport self-contained air supply system (fictional)
literarySignificance influential in shaping later science fiction depictions of undersea travel
one of the earliest detailed depictions of a submarine in fiction
medium underwater
namedAfter nautilus (cephalopod)
navigation advanced navigational instruments (fictional)
notableJourney under the Antarctic ice cap
visit to Atlantis (in some adaptations and interpretations)
operatedBy Captain Nemo’s loyal crew
operationalStatusInCanon ultimately destroyed in The Mysterious Island
originalTitleWork Vingt mille lieues sous les mers
poweredBy electricity
propulsionType electric propulsion
settingPeriod 19th century
symbolism isolation from society
scientific exploration
technological marvel
titleCharacterRelation primary setting of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
travelScope global undersea voyages

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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954 film) setInLocation Nautilus (fictional submarine)
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USS Nautilus namedAfter Nautilus (fictional submarine in Jules Verne’s novels)
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Nemo basedOn Nautilus
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Nemo forkOf Nautilus
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas setting submarine Nautilus
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas featuresVehicle Nautilus
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Professor Pierre Aronnax travelsOn Nautilus
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Professor Pierre Aronnax transportedBy Nautilus
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Ned Land travelsOn Nautilus
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Ned Land vessel Nautilus
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Conseil associatedWith Nautilus
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James Mason as Captain Nemo commandsVessel Nautilus
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USS Nautilus namedAfter Nautilus (Jules Verne’s fictional submarine)
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Nautilus-class submarine namedAfter Nautilus
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Nautilus (Trader Sam's cocktail) inspiredBy Nautilus submarine from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
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