Byron’s Journal of his Circumnavigation, 1764-66

Date

1964

Identifier

Journals G161 H2 Ser. 2 no. 122

Type

Publisher

Cambridge: Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press

Abstract

This map was first published in 1694 in an account of a journey south by English navigator, Sir John Narborough (1640-88), who sailed through the Straits of Magellan in 1670. It was consequently used by other navigators including John Byron (1723-86). In July 1764, naval officer Byron left England in the copper-bottomed Dolphin, under the pretence of sailing for the East Indies. After reading his ‘secret instructions’, Byron ‘threw them overboard’, sailed across the Pacific, and went looking for the ‘half-historical, half-mythical’ Solomon Islands – he never found them. He returned to England in May 1766, having made the fastest round the world trip ever.

Files

Final map 800x600foamboard 4.jpg

Citation

Edited by Robert E. Gallagher, “Byron’s Journal of his Circumnavigation, 1764-66,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed March 19, 2024, https://ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/10494.