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Carte Generale de la Cote Septentrionale de la Nouvelle Guinee et de la Cote Meridionale de la Nouvelle Bretagne. Route de la Corvette L'Astrolabe us Tarvers des Carolines. |
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This fine sheet features two large-format sea charts of key aspects of Jules Sébastien César Dumont D’Urville’s epic first voyage to Oceania aboard the Astrolabe (1826-9): the upper chart depicts his track through the Caroline Islands, including Guam, Truk and the Pelews, in 1828, while the lower chart features his reconnaissance of the northern coast of New Guinea and adjacent Islands in 1827.
The New Guinea map also features an inset in the lower left corner depicting the north coast of New Guinea as first explored by the Dutch mariner Willem Schouten in 1616. Both of the main charts mark the Astrolabe’s daily progress along its route. These regions were amongst the last in the equatorial zone to be understood by Europeans and Dumont D’Urville, who made three voyages to Oceania and Antarctica between 1822 and 1840, is widely considered to have been the last great maritime explorer.
The present chart appeared within the atlas of the 5 volume official record of the recording the voyage, Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe execute pendant les annees 1826-27-28-29, which contained 45 maps, published in Paris by J. Tastu in 1833.
Reference: Bibliothèque Nationale de France: ark:/12148/btv1b530938182
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