Heaphy, Charles, 1820-1881 :Chart of Cooks Strait and the recent exploratory routes at the northern end of the Middle Island, New Zealand [copy of ms map]. By Charles Heaphy, draughtsman to the first and second expeditions of the New Zealand Company, 1848

Topographical, exploratory map of the western part of the North Island from Taranaki southwards to Wellington, Cook Stait, and the northern part of the South Island, to Hokitika and Banks Peninsula. Shows the Taranaki, Wellington, Tasman, Nelson and Marlborough regions, with placenames, contours, coloured shading and some nautical information.

Includes detailed notes about the exploration at the bottom of the map, however this text is not legible.

Includes 14 aerial insets on the map, including the harbour of Otago, Port Nicholson, Nelson Haven, Waitohi Bay, D'Urville Harbour, ?West Harbour, Victoria Haven (some illegible), and 14 cross-section insets of coastline areas.

See also second copy of map, MapColl-834.1at/1848/Acc.116 (photographic copy, 34.8 x 42.7 cm), of the middle third of the map only, from Wellington to the Tasman and Marlborough Districts only, with accompanying typed notes entitled 'Key to 1848 exploration of the Nelson District'.

Other Titles - Chart of Cook Strait and the recent exploratory routes at the northern end of the Middle Island, New Zealand

Quantity: 1 map(s) on 2 sheets.

Physical Description: Photographic copy, coloured, scale indeterminable, 31 x 21.5 cm on sheets 17 x 25.2 cm