Carte des isles découvertes aux environs d'Otahiti, dans plusieurs voyages faits autour du monde par les Capitaines Byron, Wallis, Carteret et Cook en 1765, 1767, 1769 [cartographic material] / Benard dir
- Bib ID:
- 3544212
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Bénard, Robert, active 1750-1785
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Scale:
- [Scale ca. 1:4,500,000]
- Description:
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- [Paris : Saillant et Nyon, 1774]
- 1 map ; 22.2 x 49.3 cm.
- Notes:
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- Map of the Society Islands particularly around Otaheite [i.e. Tahiti], extending out to Is. Scilly [i.e. the Scilly Islands] in the west and to I. Whitsunday (de la Pentecote) [i.e. the Whitsunday Island] in the east, from Is. du Disappointment [i.e. Disappointment Island] in the north to Ohetiroa in the south. The map features the undated sea-tracks of the voyages of four well-known Pacific explorers - Commodre Byron in the Dolphin accompanied by Captain Philip Mouat in the Tamar (June 1765), British explorers Samuel Wallis and Philip Cateret (1767-68), and Lieutenant James Cook (April 1769).
- Map plate in Vol. 3, Plate 3 from: Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de Sa Majeste britannique actuellement regnante : pour faire des decouvertes dans l'hemisphere meridional et successivement executes par le commodore Byron, le capitaine Carteret, le capitaine Wallis & le capitaine Cook, dans les vaisseaux le Dauphin, le Swallow & l'Endeavour ... / par J. Hawkesworth ...; traduit de l'anglois. A Paris : Chez Saillant et Nyon, rue Saint-Jean-de-Beauvais, [Chez] Panckoucke, Hotel de Thou, rue des Poitevins, 1774.
- "Tome III. Pl. 3."
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-231278453
- Text in French.
- Subject:
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- Cook, James, 1728-1779 -- Travel -- French Polynesia -- Society Islands -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
- Wallis, Samuel, 1728-1795 -- Travel -- French Polynesia -- Society Islands -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
- Byron, John, 1723-1786 -- Travel -- French Polynesia -- Society Islands -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
- Carteret, Philip, -1796 -- Travel -- French Polynesia -- Society Islands -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
- Society Islands (French Polynesia) -- Discovery and exploration -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
- Tahiti Region -- Discovery and exploration -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
- Time Coverage:
- 1765-1769
- Other authors/contributors:
- Hawkesworth, John, 1715?-1773. Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de Sa Majeste britannique actuellement regnante
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Hawkesworth, John, 1715?-1773. Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de Sa Majeste britannique actuellement regnante.
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- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Material type:
- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1785
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1709
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