A chart of the coast of Brazil, &c. From the River Para to Buenos Ayres &c with enlarged plans of the Principal Harbours, Roadsteads &c chiefly from the surveys of Baron Raifson and Capt, Barrale of the French Navy...drawn by J.S. Hobbs published by Charles Wilson, (late J.W. Norie and Wilson)London.

Scale: circa 1:2,500,000(Lat). Blue-backed chart on two sheets joined. Seventeen insets and four views. Compass rose with variation. Soundings. MS bearings.
Insets: 1. Rio de Janeiro &c. circa 1:95,000(bar); 2. St. Sebastiao Channel circa 1:60,000(bar); 3. Abrolhas Is. and banks circa 1:350,000(bar); 4. Santos Harbour circa 1:140,000(bar); 5. Port Frio circa 1:50,000(bar); 6. Bay of Paranagua circa 1:350,000(bar); 7. Espirito Santo Bay circa 1:120,000(bar); 8. Maranham circa 1:350,000(bar); 9. Maranham Roads circa 1:150,000(bar); 10. River Para circa 1:300,000(bar); 11. Pernambuco circa 1:60,000(bar); 12. S. Salvador Bay of All Saints circa 1:350,000(bar); 13. Bay of Ciara circa 1:80,000(bar); 14. Rio Grande Do Norte circa 1:37,000(bar); 15. Aracah or Jaguarybe River circa 1:60,000(bar); 16. R. Parahyba Do Norte circa 1:120,000(bar); 17. Fernando Noranha circa 1:100,000(bar)

Object Details

ID: G244:6/11
Collection: Charts and maps
Type: Chart
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Wilson, Charles; Hobbs, J.S.
Places: Brazil
Date made: 1862
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 132 cm x 99.5 cm