Map of Fortune Bay
Date
1764
Creator
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1722, French) , Hydrographer
Object type
Library reference
27356
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 230mm
width (print): 160mm
width (print): 160mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Map showing the location of the Saint Pierre and Miquelon islands, a self-governing French territory in the northwest of the Atlantic Ocean, within Fortune Bay at the south of Newfoundland. The north and east sides of the map show parts of Newfoundland, while the much smaller French islands are visible in the southwest corner.
Plate 16 from Le petit atlas maritime: recueil de cartes et plans des quatre parties du monde; en cinq volumes ... vol.1, by Jacques-Nicholas Bellin (Paris, Ministere de la Marine, 1764).
Inscribed top right: ‘Tome I. No.16.’ With a cartouche upper left: ‘CARTE DES ISLES DE / MIQUELON ET DE ST. PIERRE / et la Coste de Terre-neuve voisme / Echelle / de Cinq Lieues Communes’. The framing scale is in French nautical leagues west of the Paris meridian.
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
Plate 16 from Le petit atlas maritime: recueil de cartes et plans des quatre parties du monde; en cinq volumes ... vol.1, by Jacques-Nicholas Bellin (Paris, Ministere de la Marine, 1764).
Inscribed top right: ‘Tome I. No.16.’ With a cartouche upper left: ‘CARTE DES ISLES DE / MIQUELON ET DE ST. PIERRE / et la Coste de Terre-neuve voisme / Echelle / de Cinq Lieues Communes’. The framing scale is in French nautical leagues west of the Paris meridian.
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
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