Chart of the Americas and the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, in six sheets I to VI (A to F). C) Chart containing the coasts of California, New Albion, and Russian discoveries to the North, with the peninsula of Kamchatka in Asia opposite thereto and islands dispersed over the Pacific Ocean to the north of the line. Published according to Act of Parliament Feb 19 1753 by T Jefferys, Geographer to His Highness the Prince of Wales at the corner of St Martins Land Charing Cross.
Scale circa 1:15,000,000. Outline colour denoting settlements and discoveries by colonising nation. Ship tracks marked (eg Geetan, Cabadonga and Centurion). Charts overlap I) Arctic II) N. Atlantic III) N. Pacific IV) Mid Atlantic V) S. Pacific VI) S. America. Prime meridian on Ferro. Green published an accompanying volume, in the NMM library catalogue at PBD8625.
Object Details
| ID: | G201:7/1C |
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| Collection: | Charts and maps |
| Type: | Chart |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Jefferys, Thomas; Green, John Jefferys, Thomas |
| Places: | Pacific Ocean; Atlantic Ocean World |
| Date made: | 1753 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection |
| Measurements: | Sheet: 70 cm x 60 cm |