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Charts of the Viti or Feejee Islands : 1797, 1814, 1827, 1840.
Penn Museum Library G9381.P5 1797 .C4 1986 .C4 map 1-4
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- Format:
- Map/Atlas
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Nautical charts--Fiji--Facsimiles.
- Nautical charts.
- Fiji--Maps--Facsimiles.
- Fiji.
- Genre:
- Maps.
- Facsimiles.
- Physical Description:
- 4 maps ; 60 x 84 cm or smaller
- Scale not given.
- paper
- monochrome
- Cartographic Data:
- Scale not given.
- Place of Publication:
- [Suva, Fiji] : [Fiji Museum], 1986.
- Language Note:
- One map in French.
- Contents:
- [1] Chart of part of the Feejee Islands explored by Capt. James Wilson in the ship Duff. September 1797 (1799)
- [2] Chart of the Feejee Islands / constructed from original documents by A. Arrowsmith (1814)
- [3] Carte de l'archipel des Iles Viti : reconnues par le capne. de frégate Dumont d'Urville / levée et dressée par Mr. Griesson (1827)
- [4] Chart of the Viti Group or Feejee Islands / Charles Wilkes (1840)
- Notes:
- Reproductions of 4 charts which "trace some major steps in the mapping of the reefs and islands."
- Relief shown by hachures on 2 charts and soundings on 1 inset map.
- Title from accompanying index sheet (2 p. ; 32 x 45 cm.), which includes a brief description of each chart and contains the chart names and modern equivalents of places that appear on the charts.
- "Fiji Museum historic reprint 1986" appears on 3 of the charts.
- Three of the charts show the course of one or more ships through the Fiji Islands.
- Contains:
- Chart of part of the Feejee Islands explored by Capt. James Wilson in the ship Duff. September 1797 .
- Chart of the Feejee Islands, 1814.
- Carte de l'archipel des Iles Viti, 1827.
- Chart of the Viti Group or Feejee Islands, 1840.
- OCLC:
- 34158489
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