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Discoveries of Capts. Ross, Parry & Franklin in the Arctic Regions in 1818, 1819, 1820, 1821 & 1822

Description: Kashnor notes, "showing Franklin's track from Lake Winnipeg along the Slave River to the Coppermine." MS note: c 1823. Four views: Iceberg in Baffins Baye. Burnets Inlet Barrows Strait. First view of the Coppermine River. Views of the land on South side of Scoresby's Sod. [Sound] Tracks of explorers routes hand colored.. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Conic. Printing Process: Lithography. Other Features: Vignettes. Verso Text: MS note: 23.
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Date: ca. 1823
Call number: 105:023 S
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Map of the North Polar Regions, from the most recent and authentic Voyages Shewing the Probable Success of the Present Expedition and the tracks of H. M. Ships Shannon & Meleager, Capt. Broughton, also that of the Isabella and Alexander in search of a N. W. Passage, by Captain Ross in 1818, and the subsequent discoveries made by Captns. Parry, Franklin, Scoresby and Cochrane in the years 1819, 1820, 1821, 1822 & 1823, 1824 & 1825. [Dedication] To Sir Philip Bowes Verc Broke, Bart, K. C. B Captain of the Shannon, this map is most respectfully dedicated by his much obliged and humble friend, Henry Martin Leake, Lieut., R. N serving in the Shannon
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Kashnor notes, "Shows the tracks of Cockrane to Kamtschatka, Franklin to the Coppermine, and the old boundary between Russian and British America at longitude 141." Descriptive notes lower left and right describe voyages of Ross, Parry, Cochrane, Scoresby, and Franklin. Map first issued in 1818 has been modified to include voyages returning as late as 1825. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Polar. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS. note: 42.
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