Track of the Marquis Cornwallis between the Isles of Augusta & Pidgeon in Dampiers Straits on the 1s...
Track of the Marquis Cornwallis between the Isles of Augusta & Pidgeon in Dampiers Straits on the 1s...
Track of the Marquis Cornwallis between the Isles of Augusta & Pidgeon in Dampiers Straits on the 1st of August 1796 [cartographic material] / H. Moor.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
1796.
Date
1796.
Call Numbers
SAFE/M Ser 4 000/1 MLMSS 7359/Map 3
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Language
English
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Cartographic data
Scale 1:63 360 (E 25°--E 130°/̕N 30°--S 65°)
Physical content
1 ms. map ; 46 x 36 cm.
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Publisher
1796.
Date Published
1796.
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Track of the Marquis Cornwallis between the Isles of Augusta & Pidgeon in Dampiers Straits on the 1st of August 1796 [cartographic material] / H. Moor.
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In August 1796, on return voyage from Port Jackson via Norfolk Island to India Captain Hogan's Indiaman the Marquis Cornwallis passed through 'Dampiers Straits'.
This ink and pen chart on laid paper watermarked 'Curteis & Sons 1794' maps the narrowest part of the Strait between Waigeo and Batanta, only 13 miles across.
Henry Moor's signed remark refers to George Robertson's charting of the China Sea....
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Online at the State Library of NSW.
Time Period
d1796
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SAFE/M Ser 4 000/1 MLMSS 7359/Map 3
Record Identifier
74VKwwoyBM5A
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991018218879702626
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