1828ca - Caroline Islands Archipelago
Beautiful large antique map of the Caroline Islands, a vast archipelago of small islands spread across the southern Philippine Sea and southwest North Pacific Ocean, north and northeast of New Guinea. It was drawn up by the commander of the corvette La Coquille Louis Isidore Duperrey. The Map lists all the discoveries and voyages made in this region of the ocean at all times. From around 1828.
Dimensions: 55 x 79 cm
Please look carefully at the photos. Large Map folded in half with some foxing and tears in its periphery.
In mid-1525, a storm carried the Portuguese navigators Diogo da Rocha and Gomes de Sequeira east of the Moluccas (via Celebes); they reached several islands in the Carolinas and remained there until January 20, 15262. The Caroline Islands were rediscovered on August 22, 1526 by Spanish explorers Toribio Alonso de Salazar and Diego de Saavedra, sighting the island of San Bartolomé or Taongui. On January 1, 1528, the navigator Álvaro de Saavedra took possession in the name of the King of Spain of the Uluti Islands, visiting the archipelago in 1542 (Islas Matelotes), 1543, 1545 and Legazpi in 1565. The Portuguese Diego da Rocha named them Ilhas Sequeira in 1527. Spanish explorers from 1543 called them the New Philippines (Nuevas Filipinas), and finally Admiral Francisco Lazeano named them Islas Carolinas in honor of Charles II of Spain in 1686. Following Spain's claim to the islands in 1875, Germany, which occupied the Yap Islands in the archipelago, opposed Spain. The dispute was resolved by arbitration by Pope Leo XIII in 1885 in favor of Spain, which began occupying the archipelago in 1886. In 1899, following the Spanish-American War, Spain sold the islands for 25 million pesetas to Germany, which incorporated them into German New Guinea.
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