. 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 Moreover, as No. 1238 was finally withdrawn from circulation in 1925 as a result of surveys by
. 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 Moreover, as No. 1238 was finally withdrawn from circulation in 1925 as a result of surveys by Norwegian whalers, the Coronation Island at least of the British Admiralty Charts has retained the shape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 years.
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