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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
Record
Accession Number:
7464
File Name:
7464-012
Call number:
D717 B258e
Map title:
[Map of the northern coast of Norway.]
Place of Publication:
London
Publisher:
printed for Benj. Tooke at the Middle-Temple-Gate and J. Hooke, at the Flower-de-luce, against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet
Publication date:
MDCCXVII
Map size height:
21 cm.
Map size width:
14.5 cm.
Item description:
fold-out engraved map, following p. 196
Geographical description:
Map of the northern coast of Norway. Includes direction of wind and currents. Includes the location of a whirlpool created by the tide in Salstraumen, Norway
Source author:
Barlow, E. (Edward), 1639-1719
Source title:
An exact survey of the tide. Explicating its production and propagation, variety and anomaly, in all parts of the world; especially near the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland. With a preliminary treatise concerning the origin of springs, generation of rain, and production of wind
Source place:
London: printed for Benj. Tooke at the Middle-Temple-Gate and J. Hooke, at the Flower-de-luce, against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, MDCCXVII
Cartobibliographic notes:
First published in 1715 under the title, Meteorological Essays.
Geographic Area:
Europe
Historical notes:
Shows the Moskstraumen, a powerful tidal current or maelstrom, one of the strongest in the world, in the Lofoten Islands off the Norwegian coast.
Normalized date:
1717
LC bibliographic number:
b3162179x
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[Map of the northern coast of Norway.]

     
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[Map of the northern coast of Norway.]