The two-dimensional gravity field over the Musicians seamount province in the Pacific Ocean has been derived from Seasat altimetry. Geoid maps were produced by fitting a minimum curvature surface to the sea surface height measurements. As check on the quality of this interpolation method, we also gridded the data using weighted grid point averages. Fourier transforms of both the geoid and geoid gradient were used to determine the gravity field. We have compared gravity maps produced these different ways in order to identify the problems involved in pushing Seasat data to the limits of its spatial resolution and accuracy. Our minimum-curvature interpolation scheme was determined to be the more accurate and cost effective mapping method, while gravity obtained by transforming the geoid produced more reliable gravity maps. The bathymetry of this area was used to predict the gravity field by filtering the bathymetry under the assumption that it is regionally compensated by a thin elastic plate. Gravity fields predicted for a variety of effective elastic thickness were compared to the Seasat-derived gravity, particularly in the areas with good track coverage. The derived gravity tends to favor a thin plate with an effective elastic thicknesses of ~5 km, though the east-west ridges in the south display a smaller signal more consistent with Airy compensation. This variation may be indicative of early fracturing of the lithosphere in the south, or it may be a manisfestation of the age difference and early thermal structure across the Murray fracture zone, which separates the seamount province into northern and southern sections. Neighboring seamounts with different flexural signatures, particularly in the south, may indicate that volcanism occurred in the same location over an extended period of time.