Details

Subject(s)

• Fly River (Papua New Guinea) [Browse]
• Hydrography [Browse]
• New Guinea—Description and travel [Browse]
• Fly River (Papua New Guinea)—Maps [Browse]

Cartographer

D'Albertis, Luigi Maria, 1841-1901 [Browse]

Lithographer

Weller, Edward, 1819-1884 [Browse]

Publisher

Edward Stanford Ltd [Browse]

Related name

Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Physical maps [Browse]
• Maps [Browse]

Notes

• Includes notes describing banks, villages, and vegetation along waterways.
• Delta and islands of river are shown. Conjectural coastlines shown by dotted lines.
• Includes inset map of New Guinea, surrounding islands, and portions of northern Australia [scale ca. 1:11,930,000]. Position of Fly River and its delta on island is shown.
• Relief shown by hachures.
• From: Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography. Vol. 1 (1879), no. 1, pp. 4-16; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J6873

With

Issued to accompany article: Journeys up the Fly River and in other parts of New Guinea / by L. M. D'Albertis. Read before the Royal Geographical Society, November 11, 1878.

Other format(s)

• Available also online through: Princeton University Libraries, Digital Map & Geographic Data Web site.
• Online version of companion article available also through the JSTOR Web site. Access limited to subscribing member institutions only.

Other title(s)

New Guinea : map of the Fly River, drawn from the original charts made by Signor L. M. D'Albertis by W. J. Turner.

In

Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and monthly record of geography Vol. 1 (1879), no. 1, p. 4-16, facing page 80. London : Edward Stanford

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