Christmas Harbour, Kerguelen Islands
Date
1840
Creator
John Robertson (British) , Naval surgeon
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Dimensions
height (drawing): 244mm
width (drawing): 207mm
width (drawing): 207mm
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Description
View of Christmas Harbour on the Kerguelen Islands in the Southern Indian Ocean. The ships HMS Erebus and HMS Terror are shown at anchor.
Headed ‘Diagram the 1st’ 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 bird’s eye view of Christmas Harbour, taken from a ridge 1500 feet high on the S.W. part, over Cook’s Bay.’
John Robertson was the surgeon aboard HMS Terror during James Clarke Ross’s Erebus and Terror Antarctic Expedition of 1839-1843.
Headed ‘Diagram the 1st’ 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 bird’s eye view of Christmas Harbour, taken from a ridge 1500 feet high on the S.W. part, over Cook’s Bay.’
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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