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C1773
[Cocos Island called by C. Wallis Boscawen. Traitors Island called by C. Wallis Keppel.]
Mapmaker:
Samuel Wallis (1728 - 1795)
Map of Cocos Island (Tafahi) and Traitors Island (Niuatoputapu). Both Islands are just north of Tonga. They are better known by the names Boscawen and Keppel given to them by Wallis in 1767, but the Tongan names are Tafahi and Niuatobutabu. Tafahi and Niuatoputapu … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
[Cocos Island called by C. Wallis Boscawen. Traitors Island called by C. Wallis Keppel.]
Date:
C1773
Mapmaker:
Samuel Wallis (1728 - 1795)
Condition:
In good condition.
Technique:
Copper engraving.
Image Size:
190mm
x 197mm
Paper Size:
225mm
x 290mm
Platemark Size:
210mm
x 215mm
AUTHENTICITY
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Genuine antique
dated:
1773
Description:
Map of Cocos Island (Tafahi) and Traitors Island (Niuatoputapu). Both Islands are just north of Tonga. They are better known by the names Boscawen and Keppel given to them by Wallis in 1767, but the Tongan names are Tafahi and Niuatobutabu.
Tafahi and Niuatoputapu were discovered by Willem Schouten and Jacob Le Maire in 1616. They named Cocos Island because of the abundance of coconut palms and Traitors Island due to the ruse by the natives who appeared peaceful but then attacked.
From Hawkesworth, An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere,..
Mapmaker:
Samuel Wallis (1728-1795)
British naval officer and Pacific explorer. Wallis was born in Cornwall and served under John Byron. In 1766 he was promoted to captain and was given the command of HMS Dolphin in 1751 as part of an expedition led by Philip Carteret in the Swallow with an assignment to circumnavigate the globe. The two ships were parted by a storm shortly after sailing through the Strait of Magellan, Wallis continued to Tahiti, which he named “King George the Third’s Island” in honour of the King.
Wallis himself was ill and remained in his cabin: lieutenant Tobias Furneaux was the first to set foot, hoisting a pennant and turning a turf, taking possession in the name of His Majesty. Dolphin stayed in Matavai Bay in Tahiti for over a month. Wallis went on to name or rename five more islands in the Society Islands and six atolls in the Tuamotu Islands, as well as confirming the locations of Rongerik and Rongelap in the Marshall Islands. He renamed the Polynesian island of Uvea as Wallis after himself, before reaching Tinian in the Mariana Islands.
He continued to Batavia, where many of the crew died from dysentery, then via the Cape of Good Hope to England, arriving in May 1768. He was able to pass on useful information to James Cook who was due to depart shortly for the Pacific, and some of the crew from the Dolphin sailed with Cook.
In 1780 Wallis was appointed Commissioner of the Admiralty.
