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Title: Chatham Islands, New Zealand, 1883 (Raster Image)

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Dates

  • Issued: 2012-02
  • Coverage: 1883

Publishers

  • Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library

Summary

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Map of the Chatham Islands, from surveys by S.P. Smith & John Robertson, 1868 & 1883. It was published by General Survey Office in 1887. Scale [ca. 1:126,720].The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the World Miller Cylindrical projected coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, roads, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown by hachures. Includes inset: Waitangi; Plan of Rangiauria or Pitt Id. (part of Chatham Islands); Key map shewing the position of the Chatham Islands relative to New Zealand; Rangitutahi or Sister (part of Chatham Islands group).This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

Subjects

  • Transportation
  • New Zealand
  • Chatham Islands
  • Maps
  • Human settlements
  • Cities and towns
  • Villages
  • Landforms
  • Bodies of water
  • Infrastructure (Economics)
  • imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-177.129428, -176.008247, -43.63939, -44.251478)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-177.129428, -176.008247, -43.63939, -44.251478)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, New Zealand. General Survey Office., Smith, S. Percy (Stephenson Percy), 1840-1922., Robertson, John. Chatham Islands, New Zealand, 1883 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g9082-c5-1887-n4

Format

GeoTIFF