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Charting the Land on the Ocean: Pacific Exploration, 1520-1876. Online exhibition
Description
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On 28 November 1520, Magellan sailed through the straits that would bear his name into the great expansive waters he dubbed ‘Mar Pacifico’. His venture opened up the exploration of the southern seas, a vast tract of water with numerous islands dotted about, most uncharted. Politically and commercially-driven expeditions then began that put shape to continents and the (re-) discovery of these islands. Notable first explorers included Mendaña de Neira, Sir Francis Drake, Abel Tasman, William Dampier, Samuel Wallis and Philip Carteret; the latter two discovering Tahiti and Pitcairn respectively.
Scientific expeditions began with Bougainville and Cook, each aided by the improvements in navigational equipment, and with institutional backing that employed a full contingent of artists, draughtsmen and botanists to help record and collect.
Cook travelled hundreds of miles throughout the Pacific in the course of his three voyages. By the time of his death in 1779, the map of the Pacific was practically as it is now. It is no wonder that La Pérouse (1785) once said: ‘Cook had left me nothing but to admire.’
Other voyages of exploration then followed, including those commanded by Malaspina (1789), d’Entrecasteaux (1791), Kotzebue (1815-18; 1825-26), Freycinet (1817-20), Dumont d’Urville, and the later United States Exploring Expedition.
The exhibition ‘Charting the Land on the Ocean: Pacific Exploration, 1520-1876’ features books and maps found in the Hocken Collections, the Science Library and Special Collections, University of Otago. Although the exhibition is by necessity selective, three goals are paramount: to highlight through their publications the brave endeavours of these explorers; to reveal the steady charting of the Pacific; and to remind everyone that these resources do exist, and can be viewed, touched, read, and enjoyed.
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Various collectors
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Pittosporum ralphii (Pittosporaceae)
Description
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Charles White after Sydney Parkinson (1769-1770) and James Miller
Abstract
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Banks’ Florilegium is a collection of 743 copperplate engravings of plants collected by Sir Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander while they accompanied Captain Cook on his voyage around the world between 1768 and 1771. Although extensive work was done on them by Sydney Parkinson and artist-engravers hired by Banks, they were not printed in Banks’ lifetime. Between 1980 and 1990, the British Museum (Natural History) and Alecto published the first complete full colour edition of the Florilegium. On display are a few framed samples from the Hocken Pictorial Collection.
Creator
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Miller, James
White, Charles
Parkinson, Sydney (1769-1770)
Source
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Banks' Florilegium, Part 20, Plate 413
Publisher
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Alecto Historical Editions Ltd
Date
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1980 – 1989
Medium
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Engraving on paper
Identifier
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Hocken Pictorial Collections
Charles White
Hocken Library
Pacific
Sir Joseph Banks