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Coastal Views of Pitcairn's Island, 1833
by Lewis Monto.

Pitcairn's Island

Lewis Monto - Coastal Views of Pitcairn's Island, 1833.

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        Top: "Pitcairns Island West 5 miles Long by Chro 129:50 W Latt 25:00 S"
        [showing: "St Paul"]

        Bottom: "Pitcairns Island"
        [showing: "Village" and "Landing"]

Notes:

      Lewis Monto's sketches of Pitcairn's Island in 1833 originally found in his manuscript journal of the 1828-1830 whaling cruise of the Nantucket whale ship, Plough Boy, Nathan Chase, commander. Monto was an officer on this voyage.

      The sketches are now in the collections of the Nantucket Historical Association on the island of Nantucket, Massachusetts.

Last updated by Tom Tyler, Denver, CO, USA, Dec 3 2021.


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