Chart of the Red Sea, comprising the part above Jiddah, on Mercator's projection, compiled from a stasimetric survey, executed in the years 1830, 31, 32 & 33 in the Honble. Compy's. ship Palinurus, by Comder. R. Moresby, and Lieut. T.G. Carless, Indian Navy. T.G. Carless Draughtsn. I.N.

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Chart of the Red Sea, comprising the part above Jiddah, on Mercator's projection, compiled from a stasimetric survey, executed in the years 1830, 31, 32 & 33 in the Honble. Compy's. ship Palinurus, by Comder. R. Moresby, and Lieut. T.G. Carless, Indian Navy. T.G. Carless Draughtsn. I.N.

Two sheets. Engr. Scale: [ca. 1:700 000]. Cartographic Note: North at 25 degrees. Graduated. Variation noted in different places. Soundings and seabed contours. Hills hachured. Contents Note: Tracks of Palinurus. 5 views.
Some placenames given in Arabic.

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Object Details

ID:	G253:4/10A
Collection:	Charts and maps
Type:	Chart
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Walker, John; Moresby, Robert Carless, Thomas Grere
Places:	Red Sea
Date made:	1836
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	Each sheet printed area 96 x 63cm, on sheet 102 x 69cm.