Chart comprizing Greenland with the countries and islands about Baffin's and Hudson's Bays.
Single sheet. Engraving coloured in outline. Scale: [circa 1:15,000,000]. Mercator projection, prime meridian through Ferro, with longitude from London added. Graduated for latitude and longitude. Outline colour denotes the discoveries and settlements of colonising nations. The chart contains tables of geographical positions. Green published an accompanying volume, in the NMM library catalogue at PBD8625.
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Object Details
ID: | G201:7/1B |
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Collection: | Charts and maps |
Type: | Chart |
Display location: | Not on display |
Creator: | Jefferys, Thomas; Green, John Jefferys, Thomas |
Places: | Atlantic Ocean; World |
Date made: | 1753 |
Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection |
Measurements: | Printed area 54 x 61cm, on sheet 60.5 x 70cm. |