Africa, sheet IV from Hollams Island to Cape Correntes including the Cape of Good Hope... from 1822 to 1826

Single sheet. Engr. Medium: Linen-backed. Scale: [ca. 1:1 000 000]. Cartographic Note: Graduated. Variation shown. Contents Note: Track of HMS Heron in search of the Telemaque 1821. Soundings by HMS Pandora on the Agulhas Bank, 1851, Inset: [Cape Descada to Cape Town] [ca. 1:400 000], View:[Danger Point and Dyer Island].
Ms ships tracks show the effects of currents near the Agulhas Bank.

Object Details

ID: G252:2/4(2)
Collection: Charts and maps
Type: Chart
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Walker, J. & C.; Owen, WiIliam Fitzwilliam United Kingdom Hydrographic Office (UKHO)
Places: Eastern Africa
Vessels: Hornet (1854); Heron (1812) Racer Canopus (captured 1798) Medway (1812)
Date made: 1827; 1851 1827; 1851
Credit: © Crown copyright. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Printed area 62 x 94cm, on sheet 66 x 99cm.