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North America: Alaska, North West Territories, Greenland. Admiralty chart 260. 'Chart...
Catalogue reference: FO 925/1268
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This record is about the North America: Alaska, North West Territories, Greenland. Admiralty chart 260. 'Chart... dating from 1855-1865 in the series Foreign Office: Library: Maps and Plans. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- FO 925/1268
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- 1855-1865
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North America: Alaska, North West Territories, Greenland. Admiralty chart 260. 'Chart of the North Polar Sea': from the North Pole to the fiftieth parallel. Shows the boundary between the territories of Great Britain and Russia as defined by the treaty of 1825. Scale: 1 inch to about 30 miles. Published 24 December 1855 under the superintendence of Captain Washington, Royal Navy, FRS, Hydrographer. Additions to 1859-1861. Corrections January 1865. A red line stretching northwards from Granitsa Channel to Mackenzie Bay shows the British-Russian border in Alaska settled in 1825. In Admiralty letter of 19 December 1867. Engraved by J and C Walker.
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- English
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- 33.5 cm x 80 cm
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- Engraved
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies, ed P A Penfold (London, 1974), entry 2178
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