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Title	Southeast coast of Australia 1771
Full Title	A Chart of part of the sea coast of New South Wales on the east coast of New Holland from Black Head to Cape Morton / by Lieut. J. Cook, Commander of His Majestys Bark the Endeavor, 1770.
Creator	Cook, James, 1728-1779
Publication Date	1771
Subject	New South Wales--Maps Manuscript maps
Continent	Oceania
Country	Australia
Notes	Relief shown by landform drawings. Depths shown by soundings. North oriented to the right. Longitude given as "Longitude west from the meridian of Greenwich."
Essay Description of Item	One of four sheets of the east coast of Australia hand drawn by James Cook's trip to New South Wales in 1770. This map is one of four manuscript charts from the first great voyage of exploration by Captain James Cook, which in April 1770 made the first clear delineation of the east coast of Australia. Sponsored by the Royal Society and the Royal Navy, the expedition had several objectives. Cook was to observe and describe the transit of Venus, chart the coastlines of places he visited in the South Pacific, and record details of the peoples, flora, and fauna he saw. The expedition sponsors also hoped Cook would find and claim for Britain the land then known as terra incognita australis. Cook did not sail close to shore, except in a few places, so the amount of detail shown in the map varied with his ship's distance from the coast. Also available on the Internet through the American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection.
Type	Image
Scale	[ca. 1:890,000]
Original Collection	American Geographical Society Library - Maps
Original Item Description	1 map : ms. ; 47 x 73 cm.
Original Item ID	(AGS) (RARE) 512 1771a
Language	en
Repository	American Geographical Society Library, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Digital Publisher	University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
Rights	The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
Digital ID	am005456
Digital Format	image/tif; image/jp2
Date.Digitized	2011
Digital Collection	American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection

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