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Arctic regions [cartographic material]

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Item

Date:

1856.

Reference:

R11981-226-X-E, Volume number: 298

Local class no.:

H3/10 000/1856

Type of material:

Maps and cartographic material

Found in:

Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3806275

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Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection

Arctic

Arctic regions
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Date(s):

1856.

Place:

London:

Place of creation:

England

Publisher:

A. Fullarton & Co,

Extent:

2 maps on 1 sheet : ill., hand col. ; 48 x 32 cm.

Language of material:

English
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Compiler: Johnson, J. Hugh

Engraver: A. Fullarton & Co

McClure, Robert, Sir, 1807-1873
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General note:

Components: 1. The Arctic regions, showing the North-west passage as determined by Cap. R. McClure and other Arctic voyagers / compiled by J. Hugh Johnson ; engraved by A. Fullarton & Co. Scale [ca. 1: 20 600 000] 24 cm in diam. -- 2. Wellington channel, Melville Island & c. from Admiralty charts. Scale [ca. 1:4 080 654]. 10 x 23 cm.
Includes 11 vignettes: 1.H.M.S. Terror thrown up by the ice in Proben Strait -- 2. "Prince Albert" surrounded by icebergs in Melville Bay (W. Parker Snow) -- 3. Cape Hotham, with H.M.S. Ptoneer and Resolute -- 4. Esquimaux female -- 5. Seal hunters --6. [Seal] -- 7. Building snow hut [Kennedy's 2nd voyage of the Prince Albert) -- 8. Sledge travelling (Osborne's arctic journal) -- 9.[Polar bear] -- 10. Walrus or horse -- 11. Esquimaux man & boy.
"III" appears in upper right corner.
VI appears on verso in upper left corner.
Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection # 298

Custodial history:

Part of the Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection purchased by the Public Archives of Canada in 1981.

Copy/version note:

The microfiche version is NMC 27800.

Related material:

LAC holds two other copies. See AMICUS no 17071479.
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The Arctic regions, showing the north-west passage as determined by Cap. R. McClure and other Arctic voyages [cartographic material] / compiled by J. Hugh Johnson, F.R.G.S. ; engraved by A. Fullarton & co

Wellington channel, Melville Island & c from Admiralty charts [cartographic material]
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Arctic regions - Maps

Northwest Passage - Discovery and exploration - Maps

Arctic regions - Discovery and exploration - Maps

Canada - Northern Canada - Northwest Passage - 1850-1854 by McClure, Robert, Sir, 1807-1873 - Maps
Source:

Private

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80101/245 CA
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Cartographic material

[Consultation90 Open]
Original can be viewed in the presence of an early cartographic archivist.

Microfiche [R11981] NMC27800

[Consultation 90 Open]

Volume [R11981]

[Consultation 90 Open]

298 Item no. assigned by LAC 298

[Consultation 90 Open]

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