North Pacific Ocean

Scale: circa 1:750,000 (lat). Blue-backed chart on three sheets joined with seventeen inses and six views. Printed and manuscript tracks. Coloured harbours and light beacons.
Insets: 1. Tsugar Strait circa 1:500,000 (bar); 2. Yedo Bay and Entrance circa 1:500,000 (bar); 3. Nagasaki circa 1:100,000 (bar); 4. Yang-Tse Kiang circa 1,000,000(bar); 5. Eastern Bosphorus circa 1:300,000 (bar); 6. Port Lloyd Peel Island circa 1:60,000 (bar); 7. Arzobispo or Bonin Islands circa 1:1,000,000 (lat); 8. Avatcha Bay circa 1:200,000; 9. Juande Fuca Haro and Rosario Straits circa 1:750,000 (bar); 10. Columbia River circa 1:25,000 (bar); 11. The Hawaiin or Sandwich Islands circa 1:750,000 (lat); 12. Honolulu circa 1:42,500 (bar); 13. Harbour of Waiakea Hilo or Byron Bay [Hawaii] circa 1:60,000 (bar); 14. The Approaches to San Fransisco circa 1:225,000 (bar); 15. San Diego Bay circa 1:150,000 (bar); 16. San Diego to the Sta Barbara Channel circa 1:250,000 (bar); 17. Acapulco circa 1:95,000 (bar).

Object Details

ID: G266:2/3
Collection: Charts and maps
Type: Chart
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Wilson, Charles; Homewood & Son
Date made: 1882
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Sheet: 211 cm x 102.5 cm