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Chart of the North Polar Sea
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Chart of the North Polar Sea

Covers the Arctic Ocean and Arctic landmasses adjacent to it. Does not show navigational data other than names of coastal ports and coastal physical features. Title printed at map center in a circle around the North Pole. Oriented with Greenwich meridian at the bottom. Admiralty nautical chart no. 260. Hemmed at sheet edges with pink fabric; mounted on cloth backing; sectioned to 16 panels to enable folding. Includes attributional notes in lower margin. Signed on cloth backing in ink script on verso: North Polar Sea 1855, Millard Fillmore 1856.

Date
1855
Mapmaker / publisher
Great Britain. Hydrographic Office; Fillmore, Millard; Potter, J. D. (John Dennett); J. & C. Walker (Firm)
Place
the Arctic Ocean
Archive
Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
Type
chart
Original size
9,505 × 7,527 pixels

Public domainsafest

Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"Chart of the North Polar Sea" (1855). Great Britain. Hydrographic Office; Fillmore, Millard; Potter, J. D. (John Dennett); J. & C. Walker (Firm). Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chart_of_the_North_Polar_Sea_LOC_2018587008.jpg

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