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• Title:Map of the Arctic Regions / J. Walker, sculpt.
  
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• Author/Creator:Walker, J., cartographer, engraver
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Walker, John, 1786-1873.
  John Murray (Firm)
  Andrew McCormick Collection.
  
• Published/Created:London : Published by ... J. Murray, [between 1880 and 1889].
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS mapsWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: G3271.S12 1880z .W35
    
  • Number of Items:2
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Links:Andrew McCormick Collection
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Arctic regions--Maps.
  Polar regions--Maps.
  
• Genre/Form:Maps.
  
• Description:Scale approximately 1:30,000,000 ; (W 180°--E 180°/N 90°--N 60°).
  1 map : hand colored, illustrations ; 31 cm in diameter on sheet 39 x 37 cm.
  
• Summary:Circular engraved map with some hand-coloured coasts depicted. The majority of the landmasses are engraved in black ink, while much of northern Canada and some of northern Europe are engraved in red.
  
• Local note:UBC has a copy in the Andrew McCormick Collection, listed as mccormick_unframed_w.
  
• Notes:Relief shown by hachures.
  Original 1818 map a frontispiece taken from: A chronological history of voyages into the Arctic regions by John Barrow London, 1818.
  In lower margin: "Circumpolar Map No. II (Geographical Discoveries made since 1818 in Red."
  Prime meridian: Greenwich.