MAKE A MEME View Large Image The Houtman Rocks (British Admiralty Chart 1723).jpg This is an image of British Admiralty Chart 1723 entitled The Houtman Rocks It shows an archipelago off the west coast of Australia now known as the Houtman Abrolhos This map was ...
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Keywords: The Houtman Rocks (British Admiralty Chart 1723).jpg This is an image of British Admiralty Chart 1723 entitled The Houtman Rocks It shows an archipelago off the west coast of Australia now known as the Houtman Abrolhos This map was published in 1845 based on a survey undertaken by John Clements Wickham and John Lort Stokes on board HMS Beagle in 1840 This is a scan of the copy belonging to the National Library of Australia NLA It has been slightly cropped and colour balanced Access to the original NLA scan is available at http //www nla gov au/apps/cdview pi nla map-t33-e The graphical user interface provided does not support downloading the full image at full resolution but the back end can be cajoled to do so by manually editing the CGI arguments in the url to http //www nla gov au/lizardtech/iserv/getimage cat NLAObjects img /nla map/t/000/33/nla map-t00033-sd sid oif jpeg rgn 0 0 1 1 cmd zoomin wid 3752 hei 2831 The original map was published in 1845 John Clements Wickham John Lort Stokes British Admiralty PD-Art Houtman Abrolhos Old nautical charts
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