[William Bligh charts] [cartographic material]
[William Bligh charts]
- Creator
- Bligh, William, 1754-1817
- Call Number
- MS 6423
- Created/Published
- [1792?]
- Extent
- 4 ms. maps.
- Items
- 4
- Scope and Content
- Three manuscript charts and one set of coastline profiles relating to the voyage of Bounty's launch (1789), and that of H.M.S. Providence and H.M.S. Assistant (1792) in the South Pacific, showing the tracks of both voyages [1792 or later]: "A chart of Bligh's Islands Discovered by Captain Wm. Bligh"; "Views of Bligh's Islands"; "A chart of the Islands to the North of the New Hebrides Discovered by Captain William Bligh"; "A chart of Bligh's Straits in the Clarence Archipelago Discovered and Explored by Captain William Bligh".
- Background
- William Bligh, son of Francis and Jane Bligh, was born at Plymouth in 1754. In 1776 he was appointed master of the Resolution under the command of Captain James Cook and in 1787 took command of the Bounty on an expedition to the West Indies. The crew, under Fletcher Christian, mutinied in 1789. Bligh became Governor of N.S.W. in 1806. He was recalled to England in 1810 and in 1812 became Rear-Admiral of the White. He died in London in 1817.
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- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Creator date of death
- 1817
- Material type
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- Published status
- Unpublished
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Bligh, William. (1792). [William Bligh charts] Retrieved November 26, 2024, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-234432483
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