Colonial Despatches
The colonial despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871
Sketch of King George's Sound (now Nootka Sound).
1 item (illustrating the log of HMS Resolution, Captain James Cook, May 1778) extracted
from ADM 55/120. Canada: New Caledonia (now British Columbia). Sketch of King George's
Sound (now Nootka Sound). Scale: 1 inch to 2 miles. Compass star. Drawn by Heny Roberts.
[Nootka Sound, c. 1778]. Shows soundings. Relief shown by hachures.
Roberts, Henry, Lieut., Sketch of King George's Sound (now Nootka Sound), 1778, National Archives of the UK, MPI 1/81. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.4, ed. James Hendrickson and the Colonial Despatches project. Victoria,
B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/mpi_1-81_1_1778.html.
Title: Sketch of King George's Sound (now Nootka Sound).
Title: Nootka Sound.
Author: Roberts, Henry, Lieut.
Subject: Nootka Sound (B.C.) -- Maps; Cook, James, 1728-1779 -- Journeys -- Maps.
Subject: Nootka Sound, 1778
Identifier (repository): MPI
Identifier (repoNumber): 1
Identifier (repoVol): 81
Identifier (libFileName): MPI1-81 (1)
Identifier (penfoldNum): 541
Identifier (doc_id): MPI 1/81
Date: 1778
Funder: Funded by a Canadian Council of Archives, Archival Community Digitization Program.
Publisher: National Archives of the UK.
Identifier (CONTENTdm): oai:contentdm.library.uvic.ca:collection5/282
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