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C1828
Plan des Iles Vanikoro ou de La Perouse
Finely engraved large scale chart of Vanikoro from one the great French voyages of exploration and scientific discovery under the Restoration and the July Monarchy under the command of Dumont D’Urville in the Astrolabe. Vanikoro is an island in the Solomons / … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Plan des Iles Vanikoro ou de La Perouse
Date:
C1828
Condition:
Small indentation and repaired small hole, otherwise in good condition. Centre fold as issued.
Technique:
Copper engraving.
Image Size:
430mm
x 580mm
Paper Size:
723mm
x 540mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1828
Description:
Finely engraved large scale chart of Vanikoro from one the great French voyages of exploration and scientific discovery under the Restoration and the July Monarchy under the command of Dumont D’Urville in the Astrolabe.
Vanikoro is an island in the Solomons / Santa Cruz group and famous for the discovery of the wreck of La Perouse’s ship after he had last been sighted outside the Heads of Botany Bay, Sydney by the English First Fleet in 1788. The French explorer Jean-François de La Pérouse was stranded on Vanikoro after both his vessels, La Boussole and the Astrolabe, struck the then unknown reefs of the island in 1788. It is reported that some of the men were killed by the local inhabitants, while the surviving sailors built a smaller vessel and left the island, but were never seen again. Those that remained on the island died before Dumont D’Urville’s arrival in 1826.
From D’Urville’s, Voyage de la Corvette L’Astrolabe, Paris.
Collections:
Australian National Maritime Museum: Object No: 00040481
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Australian National Maritime Museum: Object No: 00040481
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Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (1790 - 1842)
Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) was a French explorer and naval officer. Dumont d’Urville sailed from Toulon on 22 April 1826, towards the Pacific Ocean in his first voyage in the Astrolabe, for a circumnavigation of the world that was to lasted nearly three years. The expedition returned to Marseille on 25 March 1829. The Astrolabe was originally named Coquille and used for Louis Isidore Duperrey's circumnavigation of the earth (1822–1825). She was renamed after the navigational instrument, the astrolabe, a precursor to the sextant. In his second voyage in the Astrolabe and the Zélée he sailed from Toulon on 7 September 1837 with the aim to reach the most southerly point possible at this time in the Weddell Sea; to pass through the Strait of Magellan; to travel up the coast of Chile in order to head for Oceania with the objective of inspecting the new British colonies in Western Australia; to sail to Hobart; and to sail to New Zealand to find opportunities for French whalers and to examine places where a penal colony might be established. After passing through the East Indies, the mission would have to round the Cape of Good Hope and returning on 6 November 1840.
