KERGUELEN ISLANDS 1784 HOGG & COOK UNUSUAL ANTIQUE ORIGINAL COPPER ENGRAVED VIEW
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DescriptionA View of Christmas Harbour, in Kerguelen\'s Land, with the manner of killing Pengins, a representation of a Seal, &c.
Christmas Harbour, Kerguelen Island. Resolution and Discovery at anchor. In the foreground, penguins in groups, and a sea-lion. Two ships’ boats landing crew on the shore. Man stalking penguins.
Cook wrote: “I found the shore in a manner covered with Penguins and other birds and Seals…so fearless that we killed as ma(n)y as we chose for the sake of their fat or blubber to make Oil for our lamps and other uses… Here I display’d the British Flag and named the harbour Christmas harbour as we entered it on that Festival” (Journals III, i, 29-32).
Port-Christmas, also known as Port-Noël, is a site in Grande-Terre, the main island of the Kerguelen Archipelago. It lies at the bottom of the Bird\'s Bay at the end of the northwestern coast of the Loranchet Peninsula. Considered as one of the first designated localities of the archipelago at the end of the eighteenth century during the first explorations and attempts of establishment, Port-Christmas becomes in the course of the nineteenth century a maritime harbor for the anchorage of the mammalian fishing vessels seamen in the Southern Indian Ocean before becoming a geomagnetized scientific station punctually occupied but permanently uninhabited.
The place is also anchored in travel literature since Edgar Allan Poe (in 1838) and Jules Verne (in 1897) located chapters of their adventure novels focusing on Antarctic explorations. After them, other writers-travelers have associated Port-Christmas with a gateway to the Great South in particular because of the presence of the famous arch of Kerguelen.
Its name derives from the name Christmas Harbor given by James Cook whose ship anchored in the bay on Christmas Day 1776 during his third trip to the Pacific.
The Kerguelen Islands (in French Îles Kerguelen but officially Archipel des Kerguelen), also known as the Desolation Islands (Îles de la Désolation in French), are a group of islands in the southern Indian Ocean constituting one of the two exposed parts of the mostly submerged Kerguelen Plateau. They are among the most isolated places on Earth, located 450 km (280 mi) northwest of the uninhabited Heard Island and McDonald Islands and more than 3,300 km (2,051 mi) from Madagascar, the nearest populated location (excluding the Alfred Faure scientific station in Île de la Possession, about 1,340 km (830 mi) from there, and the non-permanent station located in Île Amsterdam, 1,440 km (890 mi) away). The islands, along with Adélie Land, the Crozet Islands, Amsterdam, and Saint Paul Islands, and France\'s Scattered Islands in the Indian Ocean are part of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands and are administered as a separate district.
The main island, Grande Terre, is 6,675 km2 (2,577 sq mi) in area and is surrounded by a further 300 smaller islands and islets, forming an archipelago of 7,215 km2 (2,786 sq mi). The climate is raw and chilly with frequent high winds throughout the year. The surrounding seas are generally rough and they remain ice-free year-round. There are no indigenous inhabitants, but France maintains a permanent presence of 45 to 100 scientists, engineers and researchers. There are no airports on the islands, so all travel and transport from the outside world is conducted by ship.
Kerguelen Islands appear as the \"Ile de Nachtegal\" on Philippe Buache\'s map from 1754 before the island was officially discovered in 1772. The Buache map has the title Carte des Terres Australes comprises entre le Tropique du Capricorne et le Pôle Antarctique où se voyent les nouvelles découvertes faites en 1739 au Sud du Cap de Bonne Esperance (\'Map of the Southern Lands contained between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Antarctic Pole, where the new discoveries made in 1739 to the south of the Cape of Good Hope may be seen\'). It is possible this early name was after Abel Tasman\'s ship \"De Zeeuwsche Nachtegaal.\" On the Buache map, \"Ile de Nachtegal\" is located at 43°S, 72°E, about 6 degrees north and 2 degrees east of the accepted location of Grande Terre.
The islands were officially discovered by the French navigator Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec on 12 February 1772. The next day Charles de Boisguehenneuc landed and claimed the island for the French crown. Yves de Kerguelen organised a second expedition in 1773 and arrived at the \"baie de l\'Oiseau\" by December of the same year. On 6 January 1774 he commanded his lieutenant, Henri Pascal de Rochegude, to leave a message notifying any passers-by of the two passages and of the French claim to the islands. Thereafter, a number of expeditions briefly visited the islands, including that of Captain James Cook in December 1776 during his third voyage, who verified and confirmed the passage of de Kerguelen by discovering and annotating the message left by the French navigator.
Soon after their discovery, the archipelago was regularly visited by whalers and sealers (mostly British, American and Norwegian) who hunted the resident populations of whales and seals to the point of near extinction, including fur seals in the 18th century and elephant seals in the 19th century. Since the end of the whaling and sealing era, most of the islands\' species have been able to increase their population again.
James Cook\'s third and final voyage (12 July 1776 – 4 October 1780) took the route from Plymouth via Cape Town and Tenerife to New Zealand and the Hawaiian Islands, and along the North American coast to the Bering Strait.
Its ostensible purpose was to return Omai, a young man from Raiatea to his homeland, but the Admiralty used this as a cover for their plan to send Cook on a voyage to discover the Northwest Passage. HMS Resolution, to be commanded by Cook, and HMS Discovery, commanded by Charles Clerke, were prepared for the voyage which started from Plymouth in 1776.
Omai was returned to his homeland and the ships sailed onwards, discovering the Hawaiian Archipelago, before reaching the Pacific coast of North America. The two charted the west coast of the continent and passed through the Bering Strait when they were stopped by ice from sailing either east or west. The vessels returned to the Pacific and called briefly at the Aleutians before retiring towards Hawaii for the winter.
At Kealakekua Bay, a number of quarrels broke out between the Europeans and Hawaiians culminating in Cook\'s death in a violent exchange on 14 February 1779. The command of the expedition was assumed by Charles Clerke who tried in vain to find the passage before his own death. Under the command of John Gore the crews returned to a subdued welcome in London in October 1780.
Date: 1784 ( undated )
Condition: Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains. Map uncolored. Small margin to the top. Wide lower margin, partially missed. Quite right lateral margin. Wide left lateral margin. Corners partially missed. Small foxing and browning. Small tears. Small holes. Conditions are as you can see in the images.
Cartographer: Captain James Cook (7 November 1728 - 14 February 1779) is a seminal figure in the history of cartography for which we can offer only a cursory treatment here. Cook began sailing as a teenager in the British Merchant Navy before joining the Royal Navy in 1755. He was posted in America for a time where he worked Samuel Holland, William Bligh, and others in the mapping of the St. Lawrence River and Newfoundland. In 1766 Cook was commissioned to explore the Pacific and given a Captaincy with command of the Endeavour. What followed were three historic voyages of discovery, the highlights of which include the first European contact with Eastern Australia, the discovery of the Hawaiian Islands (among many other Polynesian groups), the first circumnavigation of New Zealand, some of the first sightings of Antarctica, the first accurate mapping of the Pacific Northwest, and ultimately his own untimely death at the hands of angry Hawaiians in 1779. The influence of Cook work on the mapping and exploration of the Pacific cannot be understated.
Publisher: Alexander Hogg (publisher/printer; British; Male; 1778 - 1824; fl)
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Hogg, Alexander; Hogg & Co
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Publisher of books, maps and prints. Bill head in Heal Collection (Heal,17.73) states \"Bought of Alexr. Hogg...lowest price for ready money.\" Dated in pen and ink \"March 17, 1784.\" Trade card in Heal Collection (Heal,17.74) states \"To the King, the Queen, and the Prince of Wales, and to the ladies & gentlemen of Great Britain & Ireland, the following new selection of British novels is inscribed by their obedient & most humble servant Alexr. Hogg.\" Publisher of \'The Wonderful Magazine and Marvellous Chronicle\'.
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KERGUELEN ISLANDS 1784 HOGG & COOK UNUSUAL ANTIQUE ORIGINAL COPPER ENGRAVED VIEW:
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