Polar & expedition maps

Chart comparing Nimrod and Aurora voyage routes

Historical record

Separately numbered original manuscript in the Australasian Antarctic Expedition records; inventory item 8, 56cm x 76cm.

What this record establishes

Institutional record documented; does not authenticate interpretations.

Original title: Admiralty Chart. Track of the Nimrod in 1909 in black. Aurora in 1912 red. Soundings in fathoms
Artifact date: 1912
Creator: Davis, John King.
Holding institution: State Library of New South Wales
Accession: Australasian Antarctic Expedition records, map 8

Evidence of an original historical map or manuscript, not evidence of hidden lands or a non-spherical Earth.

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institutional or documentary recordhttps://content-lists.sl.nsw.gov.au/tabular-list/collection-maps-taken-australasian-antarctic-expedition-records-1910-1915

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