A new chart of part of the Pacific Ocean, exhibiting the various straits, islands and dangers, between the latitudes of 56.⁰ south and 22.⁰ north, and from the longitude of 141.⁰ to 180.⁰ east [map] / correctly drawn & regulated from the astronomical observations and surveys of Cook, Flinders, D'Entrecasteaux, Bougainville, Bligh, King, Kotzebue, Freycinet, & other distinguished navigators by J.W. Norie, Hydrographer &c.

Author
Norie, J. W. (John William), 1772-1843 [Browse]
Format
Map
Language
English
Published/​Created
London : Published as the Act directs ... by J.W. Norie & Co. at the Navigation Warehouse and Naval Academy, No. 157 Leadenhall Street, 1828 [i.e.1850]
Description
  • Scale [ca. 1:4,750,000] (E 141°00ʹ00ʺ--E 179°59ʹ00ʺ/N 22°00ʹ00ʺ--S 56°20ʹ00ʺ).
  • 1 map ; 212 x 90 cm.

Details

Subject(s)
Former owner
Library of Congress genre(s)
Getty AAT genre
Notes
  • Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings.
  • Prime meridian: Greenwich.
  • "Corrected to 1850."
  • Wall map.
  • Insets: The Port of Apra, in the Island of Guam. Scale [ca. 1:31 680] -- Torres Strait -- Port Jackson -- Storm Bay -- Port Dalrymple -- The entrance to Macquarie Harbour, in Van Diemen's Land -- A sketch of the Bay of Islands, in New Zealand -- A sketch of the Southern Port, in Stewart's Island -- Part of the S.W. side of the Frith of the Thames, in New Zealand -- The entrance to Jokeehangar River.
Provenance
Historic Maps copy was used by Captain Carl Hagström, in command of the Amazonia, on a trip to Australia in 1854 and includes his annotations between Nelson's Channel and the passage south of New Zealand.
References
Tooley, 1571/I
OCLC
812452373
International Standard Recording Code
  • HM 2012-10
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