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J. H. Colton: Patagonia. South Georgia Island. South Orkney or Powell's Group. Falkland Islands.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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J. H. Colton  (1800–1893)  wikidata:Q6105865
 
J. H. Colton
Alternative names
Joseph Hutchins Colton
Description American cartographer and geographer
Date of birth/death 5 July 1800 Edit this at Wikidata 29 July 1893 / 19 July 1893 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Longmeadow New York City
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artist QS:P170,Q6105865
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Patagonia. South Georgia Island. South Orkney or Powell's Group. Falkland Islands.
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English: An excellent first edition example of Colton's rare 1855 Patagonia, the Falkland Islands, South Georgia Islands, and the Powell Group. Divided into four maps. Left hand map covers Patagonia, which, when this map was made, remained largely unexplored. Shows speculative river courses, recently discovered lakes, and offers notations on various explorers to the region. Upper right map details South Orkney or Powell's Group. These Antarctic islands are rarely visited and were discovered by British seal hunters in 1821. The right center map details the Falkland Islands - currently a British dependency. The lower right map details South Georgia Islands - one of the most remote and southernmost islands on Earth. Throughout the map Colton identifies various cities, towns, forts, rivers, rapids, fords, and an assortment of additional topographical details. Surrounded by Colton's typical spiral motif border. Dated and copyrighted to J. H. Colton, 1855. Published as page no. 63 in volume 1 of the first edition of George Woolworth Colton's 1855 Atlas of the World .
Date 1855 (dated)
Dimensions height: 16 in (40.6 cm); width: 13 in (33 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,16U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,13U218593
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Colton, G. W., Colton's Atlas of the World Illustrating Physical and Political Geography, Vol 1, New York, 1855 (First Edition).

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