Circumnavigation Map

Circumnavigation Map

Here for your perusal is a collectible chart of the world shewing the extent and direction of the wind and the route to be followed in a circumnavigation of the globe / by Capt. Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. It was made in 1856.

Winds.

Pen-and-ink, pencil, and red watercolor. Sheets joined to form 1 map. Scale ca. 1:68,000,000 (W 1800--E 1800/N 700--S 700).

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