Whale chart preliminary sketch

Description:: Shows whale fishing locations for four species by season. Relief shown pictorially. "Published at the National Observatory by authority of Commo. L. Warrington, Chief Bureau of Ordnance & Hydrography." "Series F." The whale chart was released as series F a part of Maury's "Wind and current charts", series A-F. For complete discussion, see "The wind and current chart series produced by Matthew Fontaine Maury," by Marc I. Pinsel, in Navigation : Journal of the Institute of Navigation, v. 28, no. 2 (Summer, 1981), p. 123-137. Includes notes. In upper left margin: 78.
Resource Link:: https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9976736803506421
Identifier:: ark:/88435/ng451m04p
Language:: en and English
Creator:: Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 1806-1873
Publisher:: Washington, D.C. : National Observatory, 1851 (N. York : Lith. of Wm. Endicott & Co.)
Provider:: Princeton
Resource Class:: Maps
Resource Type:: Image
Subject:: Whales—Maps, Whaling—Maps, Sperm whale—Maps, Right whales—Maps, Thematic maps—1851, World maps—1851, and Maps
Theme:: Whales—Maps, Whaling—Maps, Sperm whale—Maps, Right whales—Maps, Thematic maps—1851, World maps—1851, and Maps
Access Rights:: Public

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