Description
The first issue and edition, of this map of Queen Charlotte’s Islands (Santa Cruz Islands, Solomon Islands), with an inset map of Carteret’s, Simson’s and Gower’s islands. Shows the tracks of H.M.Swallow, consort to the Dolphin under the command of Samuel Wallis, July-August 1767.
Wallis and Carteret rediscovered the Solomon Islands which were first sighted by the Spaniard Álvaro de Mendaña in 1568.
From Hawkesworth, An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere,..
