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Title: Arctic Sea Melville Sound
Creator: J. & C. Walker
Contributor: Great Britain. Admiralty, publisher
Kashnor, Leon, 1880-1955, seller
Museum Book Store
Date Created and/or Issued: 1859
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Maps
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: 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..
Type: image
Extent: 1 map 63 x 50 cm., sheet 66 x 52 cm.
Identifier: 105:006 M
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll4/id/649
Language: English
Subject: Viscount Melville Sound (Nunavut and N.W.T.)--Maps
Arctic regions--Maps
Northwest Passage
Time Period: 1856
Place: Arctic Region Northwest Passage Arctic Ocean Canada Viscount Melville Sound Queen Elizabeth Islands Northwest Territories Hudson Bay
W 134°
W 84°/N 79°30'
N 59°30'
Source: Huntington Rare Book Maps
Maps, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: Purchased en bloc by HEH from the Museum Book Store, June 7, 1927.

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