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Summary
| Artist |
James Cook |
| Description |
English: Tupaia's chart of the islands surrounding Tahiti in Oceania |
| Date | circa 1769 |
| Accession number |
Add MS 21593 C |
| References | The Society Islands |
| Source/Photographer |
British Library, London. |
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| current | 02:03, 23 September 2021 | | 7,657 × 5,145 (15.67 MB) | Capmo | Cropped 4 % horizontally, 6 % vertically using CropTool with lossless mode. |
| 00:15, 7 December 2019 |  | 8,000 × 5,484 (15.06 MB) | Adjutor | Newer image from the British Library https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/the-society-islands accessed 07 December 2019. Format - Pen and Ink, Map; Creator - James Cook, Tupaia Add. MS 21593 C; Created 1769 "This is a view of the Society Islands by Captain James Cook, who completed his first exploration of the Pacific Ocean from 1769 to 1771. The chart is a copy of an original document by Tupaia, a priest and leader of the island of Ra’iatea. He was enlisted by Cook to navigate HMS Endeavour to... | |
| 02:50, 16 March 2017 |  | 1,600 × 975 (371 KB) | KAVEBEAR | ||
| 02:46, 16 March 2017 |  | 801 × 488 (84 KB) | KAVEBEAR |
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