CHART OF TERRA AUSTRALIS BY M. FLINDERS COMMR. OF H.M. SLOOP INVESTIGATOR South Coast Sheet V/1798. 1802. & 3.

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CHART OF TERRA AUSTRALIS BY M. FLINDERS COMMR. OF H.M. SLOOP INVESTIGATOR South Coast Sheet V/1798. 1802. & 3.

Scale: [circa 1:1,000,000]. Black and white printed chart of part of the coast of New South Wales and Victoria, including Port Phillip, part of Tasmania (Van Diemans Land) and Bass Strait. Shows areas discovered by James Cook (1770) and George Bass (1798). Flinders survey tracks shown, and arrows indicating relevant weather conditions. Tracks marked in manuscript, (dated 1839) showing voyage of brig 'Tamar' (Lady Franklin) from Port Dalrymple to Port Phillip and return. Right hand side of chart torn and damaged.
Four inset plans: 1) PORT PHILLIP WESTERN PORT; 2) TOWFOLD BAY, scale: circa 1:150,000; 3) Southernmost PART OF FURNEAUX'S ISLANDS by M. Flinders 1798, scale: circa 1:150,000; 4) PORT DALRYMPLE discovered 1798, in the Norfolk Sloop, by M. FLINDERS with additionals soundings .... from Mr. Collins sketch, 1804., scale: circa 1:70,000.

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Object Details

ID:	HOP262:14/26
Collection:	Charts and maps
Type:	Chart
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	HM Admiralty; Flinders, Matthew
Date made:	1814
Credit:	© Crown copyright. On loan to the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, from the Hopton Hall Derbyshire Collection. Kindly lent by the Gell Muniment Trustees
Measurements:	Sheet: 67.5 cm x 101 cm