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Hog Island (one of the Crozet Group), from sketches by Captain Ashby...1876. Creator: Unknown.

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Hog Island (one of the Crozet Group), from sketches by Captain [William] Ashby, late of the ship City of Auckland, 1876. 'These islands are remote from any other land, and quite uninhabited...Dangerous as the group is, it is nevertheless frequently approached by outward-bound vessels, as this affords them an opportunity of testing the accuracy of their chronometers. At certain seasons of the year fog and ice are met with in this neighbourhood, which materially increases the dangers of an Australian passage...The Crozet Isles were discovered by Marion du Fresne, in command of a French expedition, so long ago as January, 1772; but, that unfortunate commander being shortly afterwards massacred in New Zealand, nothing was known of their discovery until three years afterwards'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM23A81_182

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Droits gérés

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49,8Mo (4,7Mo) / 42,0cm x 29,7cm / 4960 x 3511 (300dpi)

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weather Indian Ocean ocean sea arts rocks rock mountain mountains islands danger remote fog art dangerous island mountainous British geography color volcanic foggy empty bleak loneliness lonely location century Britain uninhabited newspapers press print concept B&W engraved engraving peril Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black nineteenth century The Print Collector geographical feature Illustrated London News ILN newspaper landscape Unknown 19th-century French Southern and Antarctic Lands