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Creator: Cook, James, 1728-1779.
Title: Carte de l'hemisphere Austral montrant les routes des navigateurs les plus celebres [cartographic material] / par le Capitaine Jacques Cook.
Scale: Scale [ca. 1:25,000,000]
Publisher: [Paris : Hotel de Thou ..., 1778]
Date: 1778
Material Type: Map
Physical Description: 1 map ; 48.5 cm. diam., on sheet 57.7 x 58.8 cm.
Notes: In lower right margin: Benard Direx.

In upper right margin: Pl. 2.

Includes tables of latitudes and longitudes.

Map of the Southern Hemisphere showing the tracks of explorers with dates.

Map originally published in: Voyage towards the South Pole, and round the world, performed in His Majesty's ships the Resolution and Adventure in the years 1772 ... and 1775. London : W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1777.

Pl. 2 from: Voyage dans l'hemisphere austral, et autour du monde : fait sur les vaisseaux de roi l'Aventure et la Resolution, en 1772, 1773, 1774 & 1775 / ecrit par Jacques Cook ... Vol. 1. Paris : Hotel de Thou ..., 1778.

Tooley, 335.

Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-t335-1
Subjects: Cook, James, 1728-1779 -- Journeys -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Southern Hemisphere -- Discovery and exploration -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Southern Hemisphere -- 1772-1775.
Call Number: MAP T 335/1
Amicus Number: 24651428
To cite this item use: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-t335-1