The first published chart of Macquarie Harbour in Tasmania

DUPERREY, Louis-Isidore.

Plan du Havre Macquarie (Terre de Van Diéman,) Levé par M.G.W. Evans, Chef du Génié à Hobart-town. (1809). (Communiqué à M. L.I. Duperrey, dans le relache) au Port Jackson en 1824.
Paris: Firmin Didot for Arthus Bertrand, 1827-9. Sheet 800 x 560 mm.

A large and detailed chart of Macquarie Harbour, as surveyed by George William Evans (1780-1852) in 1822 (not 1809 as in the title). Above the chart is a coastal profile of 'Hell's Gate', the narrow entrance to the harbour, with Cape Sorrell.
Although the Hydrographical Office used this survey in their "Chart of Van Diemen's Land" (1826), they did not publish a separate plan of the harbour until 1845, making this the first separate chart of the area.
The chart was engraved by Ambroise Tardieu and published as plate 44 of the account of Duperrey's circumnavigation, 'Voyage autour du Monde, execute´ par ordre du Roi, sur la Corvette de sa Majeste´, la Coquille, pendant les anne´es 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825'.


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