Chart No 2A. Pacific Ocean (in four sheets) comprised between the parallels of 37 degrees north and 37 degrees south and extending from the Philippines and Celebes Islands, New Guinea and Australia to San Francisco and Easter Island (South East Sheet). Compiled from the most recent surveys in the Hydrographic Office, 1875.

Scale 1:6,900,000. Bound in 1926, Pacific Cable Fanning Island - Suva. Chart No 2A. Black and white chart. Soundings in Fathoms. Mss cable routes marked in red and blue. Abbreviations Identification Panel. Caution Note Panel. Bar scale. Conversion Table, Fathoms - Metres. One inset (a) Pitcairn Island, from a survey by Captn. F. W. Beechey, R.N. F.R.S., HMS Blossom, 1825. Scale 1: 25,000.

Object Details

ID: PIR266:9/2
Collection: Charts and maps
Type: Chart
Display location: Not on display
Creator: HM Admiralty
Date made: 1875; 1925 1926
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Between neat lines: 64 cm x 97 cm