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English: Galapagos Islands, described by Ambrose Cowley in 1684.


John Russell's revision of Cowley's original map, with the note The Island Santa Maria de l'Aguada, according to its situation from Albemarle Island, is added from the Chart published by Mr. Arrowsmith. The map continues to use longitude reckoned from The Lizard, a cape in western Cornwall, rather than the Greenwich Observatory.
Date 1816, revision of a 1684 map
Source James Burney's A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean, Vol. IV, p. 145.
Author John Russell, based on an map by William Ambrosia Cowley with influence from Emanuel Bowen and William Arrowsmith's separate revisions

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1816 English map of the Galapagos, revising a 1684 original

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