Topographic elevation views of the terrain of five islands encountered by Captain Cook. These include: Sir Charles Saunders Island, Osnaburg Island, Boscawens Island, Admiral Keppel's Island and Wallis Island. A similar map was included in the official journal.
This version was included in a publication “A New, Authentic, and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World Undertaken and Performed by Royal Authority, Containing a New, Authentic, Entertaining, Instructive, Full, and Complete Historical Account of Captain Cook's First, Second, Third and Last Voyages, Undertaken by Order of his Present Majesty for making New Discoveries in Geography, Navigation, Astronomy, &c.” by George William Anderson (1756-1828) published by Alexander Hogg (1756-1828) in London in 1784.
Captain Cook was an excellent surveyor, a skill he learned from a land based surveyor during the British/French war over territory in Canada, which was early in Cook’s career progression to assuming the role of captain of his own ship. Saunders Island is a crescent-shaped volcanic island 5.5 miles long, lying between Candlemas Island and Montagu Island in the South Sandwich Islands, a British Overseas Territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean. It was discovered in 1775 by Captain James Cook, who named it for Sir Charles Saunders, First Lord of the Admiralty. Osnaburg Island is now known as Meheti’a. It is a volcanic island in the Windward Islands, in the east of the Society Islands in French Polynesia, east of Tahiti. Boscawens Island, also known as Tafahi is a small volcanic island in the north of the Tonga archipelago, close to Samoa than to the main islands of Tonga. Admiral Augustus Keppel (1725-1786) was a Royal Navy officer and politician who sat in the British House of Commons from 1755 to 1782. He saw action in command of various ships during the War of the Austrian Succession and in the American Revolutionary War. The island no longer bears his name. Wallis Island is a Polynesian island in the Pacific Ocean north of Tonga and northeast of Fiji.
The Richard & Leslie Breiman Collection.
