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Title: Chart of the Arctic Regions from the Admiralty Surveys
Creator: Wyld, James, 1812-1887, cartographer
Contributor: Wyld, James, 1812-1887, publisher
Kashnor, Leon, 1880-1955, seller
Museum Book Store
Date Created and/or Issued: 1849
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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 "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.
Type: image
Extent: 1 map outline col. 39 x 39 cm., sheet 46 x 48 cm.
Identifier: 093:011 M
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll4/id/9862
Language: English
Subject: Arctic regions--Maps
Time Period: 1854, ca
Place: Arctic Region
W 180°
E 180°/N 90°
N 60°
Source: Huntington Rare Book Maps
Maps, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: Purchased en bloc by HEH from the Museum Book Store, April, 1924.

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