COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Accession Number:
04762
File Name:
04762-2
Call number:
E700 F927r
Map title:
Port Famine au Detroit de Magellan
Place of Publication:
[Paris]
Publisher:
[Nicolas Le Gras]
Publication date:
[1700]
Map size height:
13.4 cm.
Map size width:
8.6 cm.
Item description:
engraved map; following p. 100
Geographical description:
Chart of Port Famine, present-day Puerto Hambre, Patagonia, Chile. Cartographic elements include compass rose, soundings, and indications of shoals or sea banks.
Source author:
Froger, François, b. 1676
Source title:
Relation d'un voyage fait en 1695. 1696. & 1697. aux côtes d'Afrique, Détroit de Magellan, Brezil, Cayenne, & Isles Antilles, par une escadre des vaisseaux du roy, commandée par Monsieur de Gennes. ...
Source place:
A Paris : Chez Nicolas Le Gras, 1700
Geographic Area:
South America
Historical notes:
Now called Puerto del Hambre, Port Famine was one of the settlements along the Strait of Magellan established by the Spanish. It is south of Punta Arenas, Chile, in Patagonia and was founded in 1584 by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa who called it Rey Don Felipe. By 1587 when Thomas Cavendish [or Candish] visited, the 300 people who had been left to colonize the area were dead.Admiral de Gennes had two purposes in this voyage supported by Louis XIV --to create trouble for Spain and to take booty. Six ships sailed ostensibly to establish a colony at the Strait of Magellan. They stopped on the African coast where they raided a fort, taking slaves and goods that were then sold by one of the ships in the Antilles. The other ships continued on to Rio de Janeiro and down the South American coast to the Strait of Magellan, but they had to turn back due to a shortage of food. They returned to La Rochelle in April 1697.
Normalized date:
1700
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