Discoveries in the Arctic Sea up to M.D.C.C.C.L.I

Scale: [circa 1:1,000,000]. Black and white chart covering the area of Banks Strait; Melvile Strait; Barrow Strait; Lancaster Sound and Baffin Bay in the Artic Sea, including Melville, Bathurst and Cornwallis Islands, North Devon, Cockburn Island, North Somerset and Prince of Wales Land. Discoveries up to 1851. Tracks of Hoppner marked. Bottom left hand side of chart torn. Entire right hand side of chart brittle, torn and in some places missing. Badly torn and creased . Brittle right hand side of chart. Corner torn left hand side.

Object Details

ID: HOP282:1/17(2)
Collection: Charts and maps
Type: Chart
Display location: Not on display
Creator: HM Admiralty
Date made: 1852
Credit: © Crown copyright. On loan to the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, from the Hopton Hall Derbyshire Collection. Kindly lent by the Gell Muniment Trustees
Measurements: Sheet: 68.5 cm x 99.5 cm