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Title: A general chart of the island of Newfoundland with the rocks & soundings

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Alternate titles

  • A general chart of the island of Newfoundland with the rocks & soundings / Drawn from surveys taken by order of the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty by James Cook and Michael Lane, surveyors, and others. By Thomas Jefferys, geographer to the King.

Dates

  • Issued: 1775
  • Coverage: 1775
  • Coverage: 1775 to 1775

Summary

col. map ; 55 x 56 cm

Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings.

Four copies. Copy 1, Newfoundland and ocean colored in. Copy 2, Newfoundland outlined in yellow and green. Copy 3, Newfoundland outlined in brown. Copy 4, only Labrador coast outlined.

From the author's The American atlas. 1775.

Subjects

  • Discoveries in geography Danish Maps.
  • 2022-creator-sprint
  • Canada--Newfoundland and Labrador
  • Maps

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-61.02,-51,52.87,46.4)

Provider

University of Michigan

Rights

  • Access rights: Public
  • This map is in the public domain.

Citation

Cook, James, 1728-1779, Robert Sayer and John Bennett (Firm). A general chart of the island of Newfoundland with the rocks & soundings. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/clark1ic/x-003277693/39015091195803

Format

JPEG

Languages

  • eng