Chart shewing the tracks across the North Atlantic Ocean of Don Christopher Columbus

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Chart shewing the tracks across the North Atlantic Ocean of Don Christopher Columbus

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Title:
Chart shewing the tracks across the North Atlantic Ocean of Don Christopher Columbus
Description:
Like many of the ancestors of today's Floridians, Christopher Columbus voyaged from his home in Europe across the North Atlantic to the West Indies. Sailing under the Spanish flag, he made four separate voyages departing from either Spain or Portugal. From his first voyage in 1492-93 to his final voyage in 1502-04, he visited many Caribbean islands, including the larger ones of Hispaniola, Cuba, and Jamaica, as well as the northern coast of South America. This map, published in Paris in 1828, reconstructs the approximate routes of Columbus' trans-Atlantic treks, indicating his location by month and day. The patterns established in these early voyages, which used the predominant ocean currents and the Trade Winds, are the general routes followed by many emigrants from the Iberian peninsula and Africa's West Coast to the Caribbean. It is their descendants who are now migrating to southern Florida.
Creator:
Touquet, J.-B. (Jean-Baptiste-Paul)
Name on Item:
J. Touquet ; Raban.
Date:
1828
Format:
Maps/Atlases
Location:
Boston Public Library
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center
Collection (local):
Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center Collection
Subjects:
Discoveries in geography
North Atlantic Ocean--Maps--Early works to 1800
Columbus, Christopher
Places:
Atlantic Ocean
Extent:
1 map : col. ; 49 x 32 cm.
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
Paris : [s.n.]
Scale:
Scale not given.
Language:
English
Notes:
Featured in the Faces & Places Exhibit, Kravis Center, Palm Beach, FL, since 2005. MB (BRL)
Identifier:
05_04_000099
Call #:
G9110 1828 .T6
Barcode:
39999052507827