[SOUTH AMERICA-FALKLANDS] East Falkland Island Stanley Harbour with Ports William and Harriet

Mapmaker:

Bartholemew James Sullivan (1810 - 1890)

Scarce Hydrographic chart of the Falklands by Captain Robert Fitzroy and Bartholomew Sullivan. This chart was first issued 25th January, 1847, with large corrections to February 1900, Small corrections to IV-1909 and magnetic variations to 1912. Superb chart with a … Read Full Description

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Full Title:

[SOUTH AMERICA-FALKLANDS] East Falkland Island Stanley Harbour with Ports William and Harriet

Date:

C1847

(1900)

Mapmaker:

Robert FitzRoy FRS (1805 - 1865)

Mapmaker:

Bartholemew James Sullivan (1810 - 1890)

Condition:

Small repaired tear at lower sheet edge, otherwise in good condition.

Technique:

Copper engraving.

Image Size:

622mm

x 460mm

Paper Size:

690mm

x 508mm

Genuine antique
dated:

1900

Description:

Scarce Hydrographic chart of the Falklands by Captain Robert Fitzroy and Bartholomew Sullivan.

This chart was first issued 25th January, 1847, with large corrections to February 1900, Small corrections to IV-1909 and magnetic variations to 1912.

Superb chart with a vignette of Cape Pembroke Lighthouse at top left.

1833: Britain re-establishes control of the islands.
1834: Installation of the first British resident, Lt Henry Smith. Smith arrests Rivero’s gang, restores the settlement and renames it Ansons Harbour. Charles Darwin’s second visit.
1838: Lt Lowcay replaces Lt Smith. 1839: Lt Lowcay is replaced by Lt Robinson, British Government to colonise the islands. 1840: The British approve the formation of a colony on the islands.
1841: Governor Moody is appointed as the first British Governor of the Islands, a letters patent establishes the legal framework for the colony.
1843: Work begins on the new town of Port Stanley, at Jackson’s Harbour. South Georgia is placed under the administration of the Falkland Islands by the letters patent of 1843.
1845: In July, Stanley becomes new capital of the Falkland Islands.

Collections:
National Maritime Museum Greenwich: G214:13/10

Robert FitzRoy FRS (1805 - 1865)

English officer of the Royal Navy and a scientist. He achieved lasting fame as the captain of HMS Beagle during Charles Darwin's famous voyage, FitzRoy's second expedition to Tierra del Fuego and the Southern Cone. FitzRoy was a pioneering meteorologist who made accurate daily weather predictions, which he called by a new name of his own invention: "forecasts". In 1854 he established what would later be called the Met Office, and created systems to get weather information to sailors and fishermen for their safety. He was a surveyor and hydrographer. As Governor of New Zealand, serving from 1843 to 1845, he tried to protect the Māori from illegal land sales claimed by British settlers.

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Bartholemew James Sullivan (1810 - 1890)

Admiral Sir Bartholomew James Sulivan, KCB, British naval officer and hydrographer. He was a leading advocate of the value of nautical surveying in relation to naval operations. Sullivan was born at Mylor, Cornwall, near Falmouth, the son of Rear Admiral Thomas Ball Sulivan. His early career included service under Robert FitzRoy on the second voyage of HMS Beagle from 1831 to 1836 with Charles Darwin, during which Bartolomé Island in the Galapagos Islands was named after him. From 1842 to 1846 he commanded HMS Philomel on the South American Station and surveyed the Falkland Islands. He was the commander of the combined Anglo-French fleet at the Battle of Vuelta de Obligado which took place on 20 November 1845. During the Crimean War he was sent by Sir Francis Beaufort, Hydrographer of the Navy, to the Baltic to assist the fleet commanded by Sir Charles Napier. Sullivan, commanding the paddle steamer HMS Lightning, made many invaluable surveys and charts of the shallow waters in which the fleet had to operate, and led the bombardment ships into position during the capture of Bomarsund. From 1856 to 1865 he was the naval professional member of the Board of Trade. He was promoted to Vice-Admiral in 1870, and Admiral in 1877. After Robert FitzRoy killed himself in 1865, leaving his wife and daughter destitute, Sullivan convinced the British government to provide them with £3000, to which Charles Darwin contributed another £100 of his own money.

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