Easter Island 1770 map by Aguera
drawn in 1770 by Aguera, a Spanish officer on the warship San Lorenzo, which, accompanied by the frigate Santa Rosalia, was sent by Dom Manuel de Amat y de Junyent, the viceroy of Peru, to explore Easter Island, known as Davis Island, and to study the natives. The San Lorenzo was under the command of Gonzáles de Haedo who called the island San Carlos Island. The map includes three crosses that were erected, on three small hills, by Gonzáles, to signify a claim to the island. The numbers around the island indicate the depth of the water, calculated in units (fathoms) of six Castilian feet. The scale indicates one nautical mile (Archivo de India, Seville).
- Date
- 1770
- Mapmaker / publisher
- Don Francisco Antonio de Agüera y Infanzon (Spanish officer on the warship San Lorenzo)
- Place
- Oceania
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 2,340 × 1,707 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: its maker died more than 70 years ago.
Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-70-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
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