A chart of the Southern Hemisphere according to the latest discoveries: with the tracks of the Resolution, Capn Cook: and the Adventure Capn Furneaux from 1772 to 1775

Circumpolar chart offset approximately twenty five degrees. Tracks of Cook's second voyage. References to Pacific Islands seen by Wallis and Cook.

Object Details

ID: G201:3/3
Collection: Charts and maps
Type: Chart
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Forster, Johann George; Whitchurch, William
Places: Southern Hemisphere; World
Vessels: Resolution (purchased 1771); Adventure (purchased 1771)
Date made: 10 March 1777
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Between neat lines: 59 cm diameter; To the plate mark: 63 cm x 67 cm; Overall sheet dimensions: 64 cm x 71 cm
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