. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions. 3i6 DISCOVERY REPORTS attempt to join Dibdin's and Cruchley's Islands, Laurie Island is not divided in two at its western end, and the two important French names, Pte Chaumont and C. Valavielle, are not inserted. Nevertheless it is of considerable interest, as the British Admiralty Chart No. 1238, Hydrographic Office, September 7, 1839, at least as far as the South Orkneys are concerned, appears to have been taken directly from it. A copy of this chart, corrected to 1844, is shown in Fig. 7. In it for the first time Dibdin's and Cr
. Discovery reports. Discovery (Ship); Scientific expeditions. 3i6 DISCOVERY REPORTS attempt to join Dibdin's and Cruchley's Islands, Laurie Island is not divided in two at its western end, and the two important French names, Pte Chaumont and C. Valavielle, are not inserted. Nevertheless it is of considerable interest, as the British Admiralty Chart No. 1238, Hydrographic Office, September 7, 1839, at least as far as the South Orkneys are concerned, appears to have been taken directly from it. A copy of this chart, corrected to 1844, is shown in Fig. 7. In it for the first time Dibdin's and Cruchley's. Fig. 7. The British Chart: taken from Chart No. 1238 published by the Admiralty on September 7, 1839. Islands appear under the name of Powell Islands, but otherwise it follows Dumoulin's preliminary chart in every detail. As no charting of any kind was done at the South Orkneys for the remainder of the nineteenth century, these islands have not been altered in shape in any subsequent issue of No. 1238 until Bruce's map of Laurie Island (Fig. 8) was incorporated in it as a small correction in 1905. Moreover, as No. 1238 was finally withdrawn from circulation in 1925 as a result of surveys by Norwegian whalers, the Coronation Island at least of the British Admiralty Charts has retained the shape assigned to it by the French expedition in 1838 for more than eighty Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Institute of Oceanographic Sciences (Great Britain); National Institute of Oceanography; Great Britain. Colonial Office. "Discovery" Committee. London, New York, Cambridge University Press
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