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Arctic regions and British America : containing all the discoveries in the Arctic seas up to 1853

Description

Map of British America focusing on water trails and portages to get across the country and to the Arctic. Also includes (primarily anglo) place names, dates and names of expeditions and their captains, and lakes and rivers.

Details
Title:

Arctic regions and British America : containing all the discoveries in the Arctic seas up to 1853

Creator:

Bartholomew, John, 1831-1893.

Publisher(s):

Adam and Charles Black (Firm)

Type:

cartographic

Genre:

Maps

Subject(s):

Cartography
Water trails
Waterways
colonialism
Imperialism
Canada
1853

Date:

[1859-1865]

Physical form:

1 map : colour ; 40 x 54 cm, on sheet 43 x 60 cm

Resolution:

600

Width (px):

14682

Height (px):

10745

Image orientation:

normal*

Colour space:

RGB

Scanning software:

ImageMill Imaging Library v3.000 2013

Note:

XLV-I.
Includes inset maps of searching expeditions under the command of cap. Austin and cap. Penny 1851, and the site of Sir J. Frankin's Winter quarters
Map coloured to show the outline of British territories and the routes of ship voyages or portages from the Atlantic across the country and into the North.

Note:

[Originally published : Black's atlas of North America 1856]

Identifier (local):

WMC0030

Identifier (MD5):

7d21c5dc058d07507f5e2795b3517188

Funding:

Material digitized as part of an Academic Innovation Fund (AIF), awarded in 2018. For more information see: http://avptl.info.yorku.ca/academic-innovation-fund/ .

Country:

Canada

Continent:

North America

Coordinates:

58.398947, -102.251345

Rights/Usage:

PUBLIC DOMAIN

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