Oceania and Australasia, 1773 (Raster Image)

Title:

Oceania and Australasia, 1773 (Raster Image)

Date:

200905

Description:

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Chart of part of the South Sea, shewing the tracts & discoveries made by His Majestys Ships Dolphin, Commodore Byron & Tamer, Capn. Mouat, 1765, Dolphin, Capn. Wallis, & Swallow, Capn. Carteret, 1767, and Endeavour, Lieutenant Cooke, 1769 ; engraved by W. Whitchurch. It was published by W. Strahan & T. Cadell in 1773. Scale [ca. 1: 50,000,000]. Covers Oceania and Australasia.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to a non-standard 'Mercator' projection with the central meridian at 160.0000 degrees west. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. Note: The central meridian of this map is not the same as the Prime Meridian and may wrap the International Date Line or overlap itself when displayed in GIS software.This map shows features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, tracks of exploration voyages (the Dolphin by Samuel Wallis & John Byron, the Tamer (i.e. Tamar) by Patrick Mouat, the Swallow by Philip Carteret, and the Endeavor by James Cook), shoreline features, and more. Includes note. This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection and the Harvard University Library as part of the Open Collections Program at Harvard University project: Organizing Our World: Sponsored Exploration and Scientific Discovery in the Modern Age. Maps selected for the project correspond to various expeditions and represent a range of regions, originators, ground condition dates, scales, and purposes.Historic paper maps can provide an excellent view of the changes that have occurred in the cultural and physical landscape. The wide range of information provided on these maps make them useful in the study of historic geography, and urban and rural land use change. As this map has been georeferenced, it can be used in a GIS as a source or background layer in conjunction with other GIS data.None planned

Type:

map

Type (Narrower):

Maps

Type (Broader):

Image

Coverage:

1773

Geographic region:

Southern Hemisphere
Australia
Australasia
Oceania
Pacific Ocean
180.000000
47.083860
-70.929153
-180.000000

Provenance:

Harvard College LibraryHarvard Geospatial LibraryHarvard Map Collection, Harvard College LibraryHarvard University. Library. Open Collections ProgramWhitchurch, William.W. Strahan and T. Cadell (Firm)Hawkesworth, John, 1715?-1773.ESRI ArcGIS 9.3

Publisher:

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library
Harvard University Library
Harvard Geospatial Library

Rights:

For educational, non-commercial use only.

Identifier:

HARVARD.SDE2.G9251_S12_1773_W4.fgdc

Source:

JP2 Map Image
Georeferenced Raster Data
Paper Map
JP2 Map Image
Whitchurch, William.
W. Strahan and T. Cadell (Firm)
Hawkesworth, John, 1715?-1773.
W. Strahan & T. Cadell
Chart of part of the South Sea, shewing the tracts & discoveries made by His Majestys Ships Dolphin, Commodore Byron & Tamer, Capn. Mouat, 1765, Dolphin, Capn. Wallis, & Swallow, Capn. Carteret, 1767, and Endeavour, Lieutenant Cooke, 1769

Format:

JPEG2000
Raster
Pixel

Is part of:

Open Collections Program at Harvard University. Expeditions and discoveries.

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