A draught of Bonthain Bay situated about 30 leagues to the S.E. of Macassar in the Island of Celebes [cartographic material] / Walker, sc
- Bib ID:
- 3543200
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Walker, John, 1759-1830
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Scale:
- Scale [ca. 1:57,383]
- Description:
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- [London : Alexr. Hogg, 1784-86]
- 1 map ; 19.9 x 32.5 cm.
- Notes:
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- Nautical chart of Bonthain Bay at the southern end of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi [i.e. Celebes]. The chart features a large amount of detail of the land only on the edge of the Bay including the location of numerous soundings, rocks, bottom type, and shoals, naming Point Paitang and Point Wideapock. The fortified town of Bonthain and further south the Market Place with nearby fields are shown. The original map was drawn by Phillip Carteret who captained The Swallow which had reached the Strait of Macassar [i.e. Makassar] on Nov. 14, 1767 sailing to Macassar [i.e. Makassar] on Sulawesi which they reached on Dec. 15, 1767. Desperate because his men were dying of scurvy, Carteret threatened the hostile Dutch Governor to run the ship aground if assistance was denied. They were given permission to sail down the coast to moor at Bonthain Bay, where they spent some five months recuperating and trying to make the Swallow seaworthy. The Swallow sailed from Bonthain Bay on May 22, 1768, having received the news that their sister ship, Dolphin, had been in Batavia. Decorative features include fleur-de-lis and rhumb lines. Relief is shown pictorially and by shading and sea depth by soundings.
- Imprint on map: London : Published by Alexr. Hogg at the Kings Arms, no. 16 Paternoster Row.
- Map opposite p. 302 from: A new, authentic, and complete collection of voyages round the world : undertaken and performed by royal authority : containing a new, authentic, entertaining, instructive, full, and complete historical account of Captain Cook's first, second, third, and last voyages, undertaken by order of His present Majesty, for making new discoveries in geography, navigation, astronomy, &c. in the Southern and Northern Hemispheres, &c., &c., &c. : to which will be added, complete and genuine narratives of other voyages of discovery round the world, &c. / ... under the direction of G.W. Anderson. London : Alexr. Hogg, [1784-86].
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-231276450
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- Time Coverage:
- 1767-1768
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- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1830
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1784
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