Christmas Harbour, Kerguelen Islands
Date
1840
Creator
John Robertson (British) , Naval surgeon
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height (drawing): 200mm
width (drawing): 253mm
width (drawing): 253mm
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Description
View of Christmas Harbour on the Kerguelen Islands in the Southern Indian Ocean, showing local geology. A single ship [HMS Erebus?] is shown in the foreground.
Headed ‘Diagram the 2nd’ in the manuscript version of the paper ‘Catalogue of geological specimens procured at “Kerguelen” during the months of May, June & July 1840’, by John Robertson. The paper was read by the author to the Royal Society on 20 May 1841 and noted in Abstracts of the papers printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London from 1837 to 1843 inclusive vol.4 (Richard and John E Taylor, London, 1843), p.305. This original account is signed by Roberson, ‘HMS Terror, Van D[iemen’s] Land 9th Sept. 1840.’
Inscribed above: ‘A sketch showing the South Side of Christmas Harbour and the great Volcanic Block which cover the petrified wood found here. The sketch is intended to show the south side of the Harbour, Arch Point, with Cape Pringle in the distance.’
John Robertson was the surgeon aboard HMS Terror during James Clarke Ross’s Erebus and Terror Antarctic Expedition of 1839-1843.
Headed ‘Diagram the 2nd’ in the manuscript version of the paper ‘Catalogue of geological specimens procured at “Kerguelen” during the months of May, June & July 1840’, by John Robertson. The paper was read by the author to the Royal Society on 20 May 1841 and noted in Abstracts of the papers printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London from 1837 to 1843 inclusive vol.4 (Richard and John E Taylor, London, 1843), p.305. This original account is signed by Roberson, ‘HMS Terror, Van D[iemen’s] Land 9th Sept. 1840.’
Inscribed above: ‘A sketch showing the South Side of Christmas Harbour and the great Volcanic Block which cover the petrified wood found here. The sketch is intended to show the south side of the Harbour, Arch Point, with Cape Pringle in the distance.’
John Robertson was the surgeon aboard HMS Terror during James Clarke Ross’s Erebus and Terror Antarctic Expedition of 1839-1843.
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