Title of the map:

"OCEAN PACIFIQUE Premiere feuille sud de la Nouvelle Calédonie à Tahiti. 

NLES HEBRIDES. ILES FIDJI. ILES SAMOA. ARCHIPEL DE COOK. PARTIE N. DE LA NLE ZELANDE.

Service Hydrographique de la Marine Paris 1899"

Very large antique sea chart of the Pacific ocean, which extends from New Caledonia to Tahiti, engraved by Huget and Biscay, edited in 1899.

In right side, an inset with the archipel Tubuai. 

Condition : good condition

Edition : Paris, dated 1937, Servie hydrographique de la Marine.

The Depot de la Marine, also named as Depot des cartes et plans de la Marine, was the official institution of maps in France. It has been created by Philippe d'Orléans, named Le Regent (1674-1723). 

This institution was the contributor of the knowledge in France about marine and navigation. Most of mapmakers worked for it, as Nicholas Bellin, Buache, Bauche, Bonne and Beautemps-Beaupré. The Depot became in 1806 the Naval Hydrographic service, and still exists today with the name SHOM (service hydrographique et océanographique de la marine).

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