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A reduction of Captain Cook's original chart of East Australian coast-line 1770 : from originals in the British Museum : north sheet ; Coast-line of east Australia, as determined by recent surveys to 1890 / F.S. Weller, lith
Bib ID 7123024
Format MapMap, OnlineOnline [cartographic image, sheet]
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Scale Scale approximately 1:2,700,000 (E 141°54ʹ39ʺ--E 151°49ʹ07ʺ/S 10°36ʹ15ʺ--S 24°06ʹ22ʺ). 
Description [Adelaide] : [Libraries Board of South Australia], [1968] 
2 maps on 1 sheet ; 69 x 52 and 60 x 42 cm, on sheet 76 x 57 
Partial contents Continuation inset on north sheet: Modern coast-line continued from below. 
Notes

Reproduction of maps comparing Cook's chart of 1770 with an 1890 chart of Australia's eastern coastline.

Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by bathymetric soundings.

"This is inserted for comparison with Cook's coast-line. The parallels of latitude are the same for both. Longitude is shown at bottom."--1890 map.

One of three maps originally published in the rear of: Captain Cook's journal during his first voyage round the world made in H.M. Bark Endeavour, 1768-71 : a literal transcription of the original mss. / With notes and introduction edited by Captain W. J. L. Wharton, London: Elliot Stock, 1893, and reproduced by the Libraries Board of South Australia in 1968 as Australiana Facsmile Editions no. 188.

Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-299194173

Subjects Cook, James, 1728-1779 -- Journeys -- Australia, Eastern -- Maps -- Facsimiles.  |  Nautical charts -- Australia, Eastern.  |  Australia, Eastern -- Maps -- Facsimiles.  |  Australia, Eastern -- Discovery and exploration -- Maps -- Facsimiles.
Time Coverage 1893-1968 
Other authors/contributors Cook, James, 1728-1779, cartographer  |  Weller, F. S., lithographer  |  Wharton, W. J. L. (William James Lloyd), Sir, 1843-1905, editor
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Alternate title: Coast-line of east Australia, as determined by recent surveys to 1890

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