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Pacific Ocean - Fiji or Viti group [cartographic material] / surveyed by Commander C. Wilkes 1840 ; engraved by J. & C. Walker ; drawn by Edward J. Powell
Bib ID 1296089
Format MapMap, OnlineOnline
Author
Powell, Edward J
 
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Scale Scale [ca. 1:840 000] 
Description London : Published at the Admiralty 22nd July 1859 under the Superintendence of Captn. Washington ... Hydrographer. Corrections May 74, July 74, Aug 75 : Sold by J.D. Potter agent for the Admiralty charts 31 Poultry & 11 King Street, Tower Hill, [1875] 
1 map ; 61 x 93 cm. on sheet 68.5 x 102 cm. 
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Admiralty chart showing explorations made between 1840 and 1874 with relief shown pictorially and by bathymetric soundings.

Subtitle: Nandi Bay, Makongai, Wakaya, Ovalu, Moturiki, Mbatiki, Naira, Angau Moala, Totoya, Matuku & Kantavu Islands, by Captn. H.M. Denham and the Officers of H.M.S. Herald 1857. The topography of the interior of Viti Levu from explorations made by J.B. Thurston esq. in 1865. A few additions and corrections by Navg. Lieut H. Hosken, H.M.S. Pearl, Commodore J.G. Goodenough, 1873, and by Lieut. F J. Rendell , H.M.S. Beagle, 1874.

Longitude east and west of Greenwich (depending upon Fort Macquarie, Sydney, being in 151p0s 14' E)

Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http:/­/­nla.gov.au/­nla.map-rm2182

Subjects Fiji - Discovery and exploration - Maps.
Other authors/contributors Wilkes, Charles, 1798-1877  |  Goodenough, J. G. (James Graham), 1830-1875  |  Thurston, John B. (John Bates), 1836-1897  |  Denham, H. M. (Henry Mangles), 1897-  |  Hosken, H  |  Rendell, F. J  |  Great Britain. Hydrographic Dept  |  J. & C. Walker

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