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Discoveries in the Arctic Sea up to MDCCCLIV (1854)

Description: Kashnor notes, "a fine map, giving Details of all the Lands discovered as well as the North-West Passage, and the most Northerly Lands of the Continent of America." Later edition of map 093:018 with increased western and southern coverage, more detail of earlier mapped areas. Seven compass roses. MS. notes: 37 x 46-1/2; Ships abandoned; April 1854. Other note unintelligible.. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Mercator. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: ARCTIC. Label- Polar, MS. note: No. 19..
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Date: 20 Jan 1855
Call number: 093:019 M
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Discoveries in the Arctic Sea up to MDCCCLII [1852]

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Kashnor notes, "Shows Kennedy's track. Extends West to Bank Straits." Lower right corner: 2118. Also shows Hoppner's land track. Three compass roses. See also map 093:019, later edition of this map with expanded western and southern coverage. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Mercator. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS. note: No.18.

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Discoveries in the Arctic Sea between Baffin Bay and Melville Island;

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Shewing [sic] the Coasts Explored on the Ice by Capt. Ommanney and the Officers of the Expedition under the command of Capt. H. T. Austin... also by the Honble. Hudson's Bay Co. Expedition under the command of Rear-Admiral John Ross, C.B., and Dr. John Rae, in Wollaston and Victoria Land, in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1850-51. Drawn from the Official Documents, by John Arrowsmith. Tracks of 18 explorers indicating coastlines each explored in search for Franklin. Reference table with color key for various explorers. Description of animals on Melville Island and seen from Victoria Channel. Map extends beyond neatline, northeast corner area section added. Submap of Beechey Island.. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Mercator. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Map extends beyond neatline.Sub-maps. Verso Text: MS. note: No. 17.

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Chart of the Arctic Regions from the Admiralty Surveys

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Kashnor notes "Hemisphere, 15 in. diameter, colored, with the discoveries of McClure, Belcher, Roos, Back, Franklin and Richardson, Dease and Simpson, Rae, Kellet, and other Explorers." Dedicated upper left: To Lady Franklin, This Sketch is Dedicated by her Obliged and Obedient Servant James Wyld. McClintock Channel and Victoria Strait not yet discovered. See map 105:015M for an earlier edition of this map. Reference chart lower right gives color key for areas of each explorer's influence.. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Equidistant Conic. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: Ms. note: No. 11.

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Arctic Sea Melville Sound

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Kashnor notes, "Showing the coast from Liverpool Bay to the Gulf of Boothia and Rae Isthmus, with the Subarctic from Great Slave Lake." Two compass roses. Seal of Hydrographic Office. . Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Cylindrical. Printing Process: Engraving. Verso Text: MS notes: 6. 1859..

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A Chart of the World according to Mercator's Projection wherein are shown the Latest Discoveries By Samuel Dunn, Mathematician

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Kashnor notes, "Indicates the routes of the principal explorers, and shows a peculiar gulf, marked "Frozen Sea," with "Great Land, Inhabited," north of Behring Strait." See also map 093:062M for a later (1789) version of this map. and 093:190S for later version. See also 105:226M. Compass rose lower center.. Prime meridian: London. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Sea leagues 20 in a Degree. Projection: Mercator. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Art Work. Verso Text: MS. note:19, 2. Mercator's Chart of the World..

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Chart of the Discoveries of Captains Ross, Parry and Franklin in the Arctic Regions in the years 1818, 1819, 1820, 1821, and 1822

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Kashnor notes, "Shows a good map, according to the knowledge of the time, from the Mackenzie and Coppermine down to Chesterfield House, on the Saskatchewan." Lower left below neatline; J. Aspin, del't. Lower right below neatline: Hewitt, sc. Buckingham Place. Upper right: 76. Kashnor notes date [1823]. Submap: Cap't. Franklin's Journey from Coppermine River, to the Head of Bathurst Inlet, and Return by Hood's River.. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: no. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Mercator. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Sub-maps. Verso Text: MS. note: No. 12.

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Discoveries in the Arctic Sea up to MDCCCLIV (1854)

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