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Western Hemisphere.

This fascinating hand colored 1815 map by Edinburgh cartographer John Thomson depicts North America and South America or the Western Hemisphere. Map covers from the Arctic to the Antarctic and from New Zealand to the Cape Verde Islands. Depicts the routes of various important explorers include Cook, Gores, Vancouver and Perouse. America's Northwest Coast is only vaguely mapped. Dated, 1815. One of the finest maps of the Western Hemisphere to appear in the 19th century.

Date
1814
Place
voyages
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
4,000 × 4,338 pixels

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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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"Western Hemisphere." (1814). Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1814_Thomson_Map_of_the_Western_Hemisphere_(_North_America_%5E_South_America_)_-_Geographicus_-_HemiWest-t-1814.jpg

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