- Bib ID:
- 6894818
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Bacon, G. W. (George Washington), 1830-1921, cartographer
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Scale:
- Scale varies (W 180°00ʹ--E 180°00ʹ/N 84°00ʹ--S 76°00ʹ).
- Description:
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- Manchester : G.W. Bacon & Co. Ltd., [1908]
- 1 map : colour, dissected and mounted on linen ; 90 x 116 cm, on sheet 96 x 121 cm, folded in cover 25 x 21 x 1.2 cm
- Partial contents:
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- Insets: North polar regions
- South polar regions The world - elliptical projection
- The British Isles (with index)
- Universal time chart
- San Francisco
- Auckland
- Adelaide
- Hong Kong
- Hamburg
- Wellington
- Bombay
- Tokyo
- Calcutta
- Panama canal
- Suez canal
- Panama
- Strait of Gibraltar
- Buenos Aires
- Environs of Singapore
- New York
- Environs of Cape Town
- Environs of Melbourne
- Sydney and Port Jackson.
- Notes:
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- Map of the world. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Depths shown by bathymetric soundings.
- Shows railways, steamship routes with distances in nautical miles, soundings, ocean currents, international boundaries, state & province boundaries in North America, and British posessions coloured red.
- Textual notes: Total estimated population of the principal countries (1895, 1905); Principal British steamship lines to foreign and colonial ports, with distances and average time of passage in miles, days and hours; The British Empire; Index-gazetteer to the principal towns; The countries of the world with government, area and population; Chief geographical discoveries and events; The earth.
- 46 flags across top of map.
- Dissected into 24 parts.
- "48 O'N 28"--Bottom margin.
- Includes legend and index-gazetteer to the principal towns.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-286818091
- Subject:
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- Genre/Form:
- World maps
- Time Coverage:
- 1908
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1921
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1908
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