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The Gulf of Finland and Baltic Sea with the fortified places from Stockholm to St Petersburg and the Aland Islands designed to show the operations of the British & French fleets by James Wyld geographer to the Queen and HRH Prince Albert
Single sheet. Engraving. Coastlines and territorial borders are coloured; defences and key places are inked red. Scale [circa 1:1,000,000 (lat)]. Graduated. Scale in English miles, nautic miles and Russian versts. Contains insets: 1. Gulf of Bothnia, general chart; 2. Cronstadt with the fortifications and batteries [circa 1:85,000]; 3. Cronstadt and St Petersburg from Russian surveys [circa 1:400,000]; 4. The harbour and entrances of Sweaborg and Helsingfors with the fortifications and batteries [circa 1:55,000].
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Object Details
| ID: | G217:1/7 |
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| Collection: | Charts and maps |
| Type: | Chart |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Younger, James Wyld The |
| Places: | Baltic Sea |
| Date made: | 1854 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Printed area 50 x 68cm, on sheet 52 x 70cm. |