Arctic Sea [cartographic material] : Melville Sound sheet II / published at the Admiralty 1859.
Arctic Sea [cartographic material] : Melville Sound sheet II / published at the Admiralty 1859.
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Publisher
London : The Admiralty, 1861.
Date
1861.
Call Numbers
Charts G 171/2 (1861)
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Language
English
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Cartographic data
Scale [ca. 1:3 333 333]
Physical content
1 map ; 61 x 47,5 cm.
Publication information
Publisher
London : The Admiralty, 1861.
Place of Publication
United Kingdom
Date Published
1861.
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Arctic Sea [cartographic material] : Melville Sound sheet II / published at the Admiralty 1859.
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Notes
General note
"Published at the Admiralty 26th May 1856 [...] Corrections to 1859, 1861."
The area is centered on Melville Sound and Victoria Island.
This engraved Admiralty chart (now no. 2443) had new editions 1881, 1927; corrections in 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1938, 1940, 1944, and 1963.
Donated in a tube labeled "The Arctic Charts of Captain George Leslie Murray R.N. 1805-1885. Served in the Crimean War at the Battle of the Baltic. These charts are from the 1850-1854 period when he was engaged by the Admiralty to join in the search for Sir John Franklin, lost on the N.W. Passage Expedition." [Not quite correct, as this edition was...
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Call Numbers
Charts G 171/2 (1861)
Record Identifier
74VKmMQWMAbl
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MMS ID
991020519739702626
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