The Virgin Islands from English and Danish surveys

Single sheet. Hand col engr. Scale: ca. 1:500 000 (bar). Cartographic Note: Graduated, meridians of London and Ferro. Scales in sea leagues and statute miles. Additional Places: Caribbean. Contents Note: Twelve views. Text box describing the settlement history of the islands. The current population was 'chiefly English from Nevis and Antigua and Irish papists'. Thomas Jefferys was Geographer to Geroge III - he died in 1771 and so this map was published posthumously.

Object Details

ID: GREN80A/2
Type: Chart
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Jefferys, Thomas
Places: Caribbean Sea
Date made: 1775
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection
Measurements: 46.5 cm x 62 cm
Parts: The map collection of William Wyndham Grenville, Prime Minister, 1759-1834 (Chart)