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Baltic Sea: survey map: 'A New Hydrographic Survey of the Baltic or East Sea, with...
Catalogue reference: FO 925/4322
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- FO 925/4322
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1788-1819
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Baltic Sea: survey map: 'A New Hydrographic Survey of the Baltic or East Sea, with the Gulf of Finland, Made by Order of Gustavus III. King of Sweden, Under the Direction of Vice Admiral Nordenankar, and Published at Stockholm in the Years 1788 and 1789'. Map showing soundings, coasts, islands, lighthouses, towns, villages. Insets: Åhus Roads to Lando Hamn; Carlshamn and Windhamn Road to Matvikshamn, Guovik and Jarnavik; 'the Danish Grounds with Their Three Channels'; Sandhamns Inlet; entrance of Cronstadt and from the Narrows to St Petersburg; Uto Inlet; entrance of Wiburg; entrance of Friedrichshamn within and without the Aspo Islands; entrance of Lovisa through Orrenground; entrances of Hango Road; Revel roads; Rogerwyck or Port Baltic; the River Duna from Riga to the sea; the mouths of the Oder with its course from Stettin. View of Cronstadt, other coasts and islands; elevations of Tolbeacon and Sescar lighthouses. Scale: 1 inch to 7 sea miles. Title decorated with pine forests and fish. Compass stars and lines. Dedicated to the Corporation of Trinity House. Republished by Laurie and Whittle, Fleet St, London, with 'Several Additions From the Draughts, Journals and ca. of British Navigators', 1796. This is a later edition, collated with surveys by M Gustaf Klint, and published in 1819.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- English
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- 118 cm x 145 cm
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- 1:510720
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- Engraved, coloured
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- Maps and Plans in the Public Record Office: 4. Europe and Turkey, ed Geraldine Beech (London, 1998), entry 5067.
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- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C3820678/
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