[AUSTRALIA-SA] C. Catastrophe to Nuyts Archipelago Surveyed by Staff Commr. F. Howard R.N.

Description

First edition (1875), of this magnificent hydrographic chart of the South Australian coast extending from Cape Adieu to Port Lincoln, Surveyed by Staff Commr. F.Howard R.N. 1873-9. This first issue without updates, has only three inset maps; insets of Denial and Smoky Bays, Streaky Bay, Coffin Bay and doesn’t have the two coastal profiles at the bottom added in later issues.

The regular updating of Hydrographic charts by the Hydrographic Office was to ensure that commanders of ships, pilots and other mariners were able to have the most to up to date information available to safely navigate foreign waters and ports as new information of changes to sea depths, sand bars, wrecks or other any other pertinent nautical information that could hinder passage became available. As updated charts were offered for sale, the earlier outdated charts in the hands of mariners, pilots, ships owners and sailors were invariably discarded, subsequently making all British Admiralty issued hydrographic charts of the period rare. 

Collections:
This first edition not located in any institutional collections.