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• Title:Map of the countries around the North Pole according to the latest discoveries / J. Smith, Sc..
  
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• Author/Creator:Smith, J., cartographer.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Barrington, Daines, 1727-1800. author. Possibility of Approaching the North Pole,
  Beaufoy, Mark, 1764-1827. author. Possibility of Approaching the North Pole,
  T. & J. Allman (Firm)
  Andrew McCormick Collection.
  
• Published/Created:London : Published by T. & J. Allman ..., March 2, 1818,
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS framedWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: G3210 1818 .S64
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Links:Andrew McCormick Collection
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Northern Hemisphere--Maps.
  Arctic regions--Maps.
  Polar regions--Maps.
  North Pole--Maps.
  Northwest Passage--Maps.
  
• Description:Scale not given.
  1 map : hand colored ; 16. 2 cm in diameter, on sheet 21 x 20 cm.
  
• Summary:Engraved map of the north polar projection. Shows the North Pole with the adjacent North American continent, Spitzbergen, Greenland, Scandinavia and Russia. Highlights discoveries by Samuel Hearne, Alexander Mackenzie and William Baffin.
  
• Local note:UBC has a copy in the Andrew McCormick Collection, listed as mccormick_26
  
• Notes:Relief shown by hachures.
  Map removed from : Barrington, Daines & Beaufoy, Mark. Possibility of Approaching the North Pole. London: T. & J. Allman, 1818.