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One sheet bearing views and charts of two islands. (1) 'Isle De Ponnedo'; two views...
Catalogue reference: MPF 1/193
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- MPF 1/193
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1750
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One sheet bearing views and charts of two islands. (1) 'Isle De Ponnedo'; two views of an island in the Atlantic Ocean [? St Paul's Island]. No scale shown. Notes on latitude and longitude. Taken from the ship Le Rouiller, commanded by M Larr. (2) Indian Ocean: Trialles and Clouter (Cloates) Islands: on one chart, 'Isle Cloater ou Cloutes' (shown in same latitude as Point Cloates, Australia, but over 1,000 miles further west) and 'Isle des Trialles' (? 'Trial Rocks', which appear on a number of other eighteenth-century charts, but are not now to be found at the place shown). Notes on latitude and longitude. Scale: 1 inch to 6 miles. Each sheet 36.8 cm x 48.3 cm.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- SP 112/44
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- Public Record(s)
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- French
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- Open Document, Open Description
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One sheet bearing views and charts of two islands. (1) 'Isle De Ponnedo'; two views...
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