MAKE A MEME View Large Image Pinkerton Map of the Southern Hemisphere ( South Pole, Antarctic ) - Geographicus - SouthernHemisphere-pinkerton-1818.jpg A rare and important 1818 map of the Southern Hemisphere by John Pinkerton On a Polar projection this map depicts ...
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Keywords: 1818 Pinkerton Map of the Southern Hemisphere ( South Pole, Antarctic ) - Geographicus - SouthernHemisphere-pinkerton-1818.jpg A rare and important 1818 map of the Southern Hemisphere by John Pinkerton On a Polar projection this map depicts Australia Polynesia and the parts of South America and Africa This map was issued after the search for Terra Australis or the Great Southern Continent had been abandoned but prior to the discovery of Antarctica - consequently the South Pole is depicted as a vast ocean called Icy Sea In the more populated lands to the north this map offers fairly accurate shorelines throughout In Africa the interior remains unexplored except for the Congo the Cape Colony and the gold mining regions of Monomotapa Similarly the coasts of Australia are accurate but the interior is vague and unknown Drawn by L Herbert and engraved by Samuel Neele under the direction of John Pinkerton The map comes from the scarce American edition of Pinkerton ™s Modern Atlas published by Thomas Dobson Co of Philadelphia in 1818 1818 undated Size in 20 22 object history credit line accession number SouthernHemisphere-pinkerton-1818 Pinkerton J <i>A Modern Atlas from the Lates and Best Authorities Exhibiting the Various Divisions of the World with its chief Empires Kingdoms and States; in Sixty Maps carefully reduced from the Larges and Most Authentic Sources </i> 1818 Philadelphia Thomas Dobson Edition Geographicus-source PD-old-100 Maps by John Pinkerton 1818 maps Old maps of Earth's hemispheres Old maps of Antarctica
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