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Title
Captain Cook memorial, Point Venus, Tahiti
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
102 boulevard Arago - 75014 Paris, France
Défap - Service protestant de mission (Département évangélique français d’action apostolique)
http://www.defap-bibliotheque.fr/
http://www.defap-bibliotheque.fr/contact.html
Description
Captain Cook memorial, Point Venus, Tahiti
Monument erected to the Point Venus in honour of the Captain Cook. It is here that he observed the passage of Venus on the sun disc at night from 3 till 4 June 1769.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph : black-and-white negative, on polyester, 11,5x7 cm
photographs
Identifier
IMP-DEFAP_PFN080-05974_2.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-88520
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-DEFAP_PFN080-05974_2.jpg
Subject
Monuments
Astronomy
Scientific expeditions
Place
French Polynesia
Mahina (French Polynesia)
Tahiti
Oceania
Tahiti (French Polynesia)
island
Windward Islands
Source
SMEP/PF.N.080-05974 [File]
Relation
Défap - Service protestant de mission
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs of the Défap - Service protestant de mission, Paris, ca. 1880-1971

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