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Argentina: Tierra del Fuego. Admiralty Chart 1373: 'The South-Eastern part of Tierra...
Catalogue reference: FO 925/1751
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FO 925/1751
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1841-1880
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Argentina: Tierra del Fuego. Admiralty Chart 1373: 'The South-Eastern part of Tierra del Fuego with Staten Island and Diego Ramirez Islands with views for navigating round the edges'. Scale: 1 inch to about 30 miles. Compass roses. Surveyed by Captain Robert FitzRoy, Royal Navy and the officers of HMS Beagle 1830-1834. Staten Island surveyed by Lieutenant E N Kendall in 1828. Engraved by J and C Walker. Inset sketch of Ushuwia Harbour, a mission station for shipwrecked mariners, surveyed by W J T Wallis in 1876. Published 16 March 1841. Corrected to 1880.
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37.5 cm x 101 cm
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Open Document, Open Description
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 2. America and West Indies, ed P A Penfold (London, 1974), entry 4174
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