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[Lort Stokes collection of maps relating to Australia and the Pacific Ocean]

Subject
Category
Keywords
Pacific ocean
Creator
Stokes, J. L. (John Lort), 1812-1885
Current holder
Series number
MAP Lort Stokes Collection/1-20
Item number
834475
Access rights
Digitised
Rights
Out of copyright
Country of origin
Language
Period of reference
1800 to 1864
Description from source
20 maps : some colour, some manuscript ; 99.5 x 145.6 cm or smaller

Notes:
Set of manuscript and printed maps showing Stokes explorations, particularly of Australia. Also includes copies of 5 charts by D’Entrecasteaux of Indonesia captured from the French and kept in the care of Dalrymple. Manuscript chart of Tonga showing the track of Wilson’s ship, Duff. Two maps, no. 16 and 17 are fragments only.
Letter from Maggs Bros., Ltd., file P21/3/326.
Physical format
Maps
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