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North Pacific Ocean: Bering Sea: Russia and United States, NW Coast: Bering Strait...

Catalogue reference: ADM 344/2146

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This record is about the North Pacific Ocean: Bering Sea: Russia and United States, NW Coast: Bering Strait... dating from 1837 Jan 01 - 1894 Dec 31 in the series Admiralty: Hydrographic Department: Coastal and Riverine Views. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.

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Reference
ADM 344/2146
Date
1837 Jan 01 - 1894 Dec 31
Description

North Pacific Ocean: Bering Sea: Russia and United States, NW Coast: Bering Strait and Alaska: Provideniya and Alexander Archipelago; four items on one sheet: item 1, 'View of Mount Edgecumbe from HMS Sulphur' (Sitka) drawn by John Richards (c1837); item 2, 'Mount Edgecumbe, September 1837', showing 'Point Edgecumbe S43E' and 'Norfolk Sound'; item 3, 'Cape Muzon' (Dixon Entrance) by CJW, annotated, (by Lt C J Wintour, HMS Pheasant, 1894), showing 'Point Cornwallis' and 'Liscombe Point'; item 4, 'Bering Strait, W Coast', annotated (HMS Pheasant, 1891), showing 'Coast to W'ward of Entrance to Port Providence' and 'Cape Tchukotski'

Note
Item 1, watercolour; items 2 and 3, pen and ink; item 4, pen and ink with wash
Held by
The National Archives, Kew
Former department reference
Folio 8B, item 20, page 23; SE Alaska Pilot (Nautical Papers 4), pages 76-188; V10308 and V10820
Legal status
Public Record(s)
Closure status
Open Document, Open Description
Record URL
https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C11440999/

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ADM 344

Admiralty: Hydrographic Department: Coastal and Riverine Views

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