A chart showing the favourite resort of the sperm and right whale by M.F. Maury L.L.D. Lieut.U.S. Navy. Constructed from Maury's whale chart of the World by Robt. H.Wyman Lieut. U.S.N. by authority of Commo: Charles Morris U.S.N. Chief of Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography. 1853.

Single sheet. Col. lith. Scale: [ca.1:30 000 000]. Contents Note: Coloured areas show distribution of whale species.

Object Details

ID: STK201:1/36
Collection: Charts and maps
Type: Chart
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Maury, Matthew Fontaine
Date made: 1859
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London. Caird Fund.
Measurements: Printed area 60 x 94cm, on sheet 69 x 101cm.