Charts of the Viti or Feejee Islands : 1797, 1814, 1827, 1840.

Format:

Map/Atlas

Contributor:

Fiji Museum.

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