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Scarce late c.18th engraved French edition of Phillip Carteret’s map and coastal profile of the islands of the Queen Charlotte Islands (now the Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands), based on surveys conducted in July–August 1767 during the voyage of Swallow.

The first European sighting of Nukutavake occurred in 1767, when the English navigator Samuel Wallis named it Queen Charlotte Island (French: Reine Charlotte). The map is frequently, though erroneously, attributed to James Cook, a misunderstanding arising from its publication in John Hawkesworth’s Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de Sa Majesté Britannique actuellement régnante, the authoritative French edition of the official narratives of the voyages of Byron, Wallis, Carteret and Cook, and in fact records Carteret’s independent hydrographic work undertaken during his circumnavigation of 1766–69.

References:
Beddie, M. Bibliography of Captain James Cook, RN,FRS, Circumnavigator. Sydney 1970: 659.

Collections:
Bibliotheque Nationale de France: 4-P2-19
National Library New Zealand: NLNZ ALMA 9913312233502836
New York Public Library: KBF (Hawkesworth, J. Relation des voyages entrepris) v. 1-4
State Library New South Wales: 991013932229702626
State Library Victoria: RARELTF ; 910.41 H31R
State Library South Australia: 910.4 H395 b
State Library Queensland: LCCallNum: 05034855.