Polar & expedition maps
Antarctic map of magnetic compass variation
Historical recordMagnetic survey, not geographic-pole map.
What this record establishes
Institutional record documented; does not authenticate interpretations.
Record details
- Original title
- Antarctic Magnetic Survey: Declination
- Artifact date
- 1869; epoch 1840–1845
- Holding institution
- British Library
- Identifier
- L.R.292
- Record type
- individual_artifact
Catalog review date reported: 2026-10-28. This is inherited catalog metadata, not a new verification of the linked source.
Antarctic Magnetic Survey: Declination, epoch 1840–1845. Plate XXII in Edward Sabine’s Contributions to Terrestrial Magnetism, No. XI. This is the ETH copy, catalogued 1868; the British Library blog labels its copy 1869.
Edward Sabine, Antarctic Magnetic Survey: Epoch 1840–1845, Declination, engraved by Malby & Sons. ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, Rar 22772, https://doi.org/10.3931/e-rara-140933 / Public Domain Mark.
ETH catalog and Royal Society volume 158 date this work 1868; British Library blog says 1869. Preserve this discrepancy rather than silently treating the dates as identical.
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Image rights and evidence limits
Public Domain Mark 1.0
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Sources and what they support
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- image reproduction provenance; not proof of a linked interpretationhttps://www.e-rara.ch/zut/content/titleinfo/30891712
- institutional or documentary recordhttps://www.bl.uk/stories/blogs/posts/antarctica-a-brief-history-in-maps
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