Polar Map, 1774

Didier Robert de Vaugondy's "Essai d'une Carte Polaire" ("Attempt at a Polar Map") from 1774 shows Russia to the right (see a detail???), Greenland at the bottom, and Baffin Bay at the lower left (see a detail???).

From Mary Sponberg Pedley, Bel et Utile: The Work of the Robert de Vaugondy Family of Mapmakers (Tring, Herts: Map Collector Publications, 1992), p. 87. PERMISSION!!!

Contexts:
- Geography
- Northern Passage