Book/Printed Material Discoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific.
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Image 1 of Discoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific. ANDBOOKS PREP ABED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE HISTORICAL SECTION OF THE FOREIGN OFFICENo 139 D 6 G7 no 139 Copy 2 L DISCOVERIES AND ACQUISITIONS IN THE PACIFIC LONDON PUBLISHED BY… -
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Image 7 of Discoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific. HANDBOOKS PREPARED UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE HISTORICAL SECTION OF THE FOREIGN OFFICENo 139 DISCOVERIES AND ACQUISITIONS IN THE PACIFIC LONDON PUBLISHED BY H M STATIONERY OFFICE -
Image 8 of Discoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific. JK LIBRARY OF CONGRESS RECEIVED JAN 81921 DOCUMENTS DIVISION -
Image 9 of Discoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific. EDITORIAL NOTE In the spring of 1917 the Foreign Office in connexion with the preparation which they were making for the work of the Peace Conference established a special section whose duty… -
Image 10 of Discoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific. It must be understood that although the series of volumes was prepared under the authority and is now issued with the sanction of the Foreign Office that Office is not to be… -
Image 11 of Discoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific. The I PacificJ TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Chronological Summary 1 I THE GREAT AGE OF EXPLORATION TO ABOUT 1648 4 i Earliest Explorers 4 Nunez de Balboa reaches the Pacific Coast 4… -
Image 12 of Discoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific. TABLE OF CONTENTS 10139 PAGE II TRANSITION 16481787 a The Pause 16481763 13 Russian Pioneers open up Kamchatka 14 Berings Discoveries 14 Russians in Alaska 14 Dampiers Voyages 15 Roggeveens Voyage 15… -
Image 13 of Discoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific. The 1 Pacific J TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE iv American and Japanese Activities 25 The SpanishAmerican War 25 Surrender of the Philippines to America 25 America annexes the Sandwich Islands 25 Effects… -
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Image 15 of Discoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific. DISCOVERIES AND ACQUISITIONS IN THE PACIFIC Chronological Summary 1513 Balboa crosses the Isthmus of Darien and first sees the Pacific 1519 21 Spanish Conquest of Mexico 1520 21 Magellan crosses the Pacific… -
Image 16 of Discoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific. 2 CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY no 139 15981601 Oliver van Noort Beginnings of Dutch exploration in the Pacific Dirck Gerritsz reaches 64 south 16056 Queiros and Vaez de Torres sail from Peru and explore… -
Image 17 of Discoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific. Pacific CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY 3 1802 Foundation of New Archangel at Sitka 1803 Colony started in Tasmania 18036 Krusensterns Voyage 180712 Attempted Russian Settlement in California 18326 j Kotzebues Voyages 181921 Bellingshausens Voyage… -
Image 18 of Discoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific. 4 THE GREAT AGE No 139 I The Great Age of Exploration to about 1648 i Earliest Explorers This period commences with Nunez de Balboas arrival on the Pacific coast of the… -
Image 19 of Discoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific. The I PacificJ OF EXPLORATION 5 between which and Eastern Asia there lay in all probability another sea The truth of this suspicion was proved by Balboa ii Magellan and his Successors… -
Image 20 of Discoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific. 6 THE GREAT AGE Ho 139 the Pacific and from this base much of the siibsequent Spanish exploration was planned and conducted In 152527 the Pacific coast of South America was explored… -
Image 21 of Discoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific. The 1 Pacific I OF EXPLORATION 7 iii First Records of Australia But now we get the first certain glimpse of Australia It was about 1536 that the northwestern corner of that… -
Image 22 of Discoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific. 8 THE GREAT AGE Ho 139 From about 1555 we come to a time of marked advance and valuable results in Pacific exploration and to the earliest attempts at settlement in the… -
Image 23 of Discoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific. The 1 FacificJ OF EXPLORATION 9 self the first explorer of what we know as Northern California he proclaimed an English annexation of that country and founded the first English claims in… -
Image 24 of Discoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific. 10 THE GREAT AGE No 139 Continent only like others he magnified that Australia far beyond the truth Mendana obtained Ins colonizing licences in 1574 but a series of unlucky chances delayed… -
Image 25 of Discoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific. The 1 PacificJ OF EXPLORATION 11 explorers of the same nationality in 1622 and 1627 in the Leeuwin and the Guld Zeepard opened up part of the northern and southern shores and… -
Image 26 of Discoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific. 12 THE GREAT AGE wo 139 x Van Diemen and Tasman Dutch Pacific exploration like Dutch colonial expan sion in general reached its highest point in the organiz ing enterprise of Antony… -
Image 27 of Discoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific. The I Pacific OF EXPLORATION 13 Australia remained as Tasman left it till Cooks first voyage in 176879 De Bries and Schaep sent out by Van Diemen from Batavia explored the North… -
Image 28 of Discoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific. 14 TRANSITION PERIOD No 139 It seemed enough to develop the enormous fields which had been wonat least in the Oceanic world Roth the French and the Russians however con tinued their… -
Image 29 of Discoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific. The i Pacific J 16481763 15 in some parts of the Pacific and William Dampier who was a buccaneer in earlier life though later a respectable servant of the British Government advanced… -
Image 30 of Discoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific. 16 TRANSITION PERIOD No 139 Tuamotus Tahiti the Samoan group part of the New Hebrides the coast of New Guinea and the Louisiade and New Britain Archipelagos Finally in 176879 James Cook… -
Image 31 of Discoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific. The I PacificJ 17631787 17 of the Southern Tropic from Easter Island to the New Hebrides and discovered and named New Caledonia On his third and last voyage 177679 Cook re visited… -
Image 32 of Discoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific. 18 TRANSITION PERIOD No 139 tions of the early Dutch pioneers In more southern waters he revisited Easter Island and the Samoan group where he enlarged previous knowledge of Savaii Dec 1787… -
Image 33 of Discoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific. The I PacificJ 17871825 19 Russias position as an exploring nation The Krusen stern group the Kutusov and Suvarov Islands in the east of the Marshalls the Kotzebue Gulf or Sound on… -
Image 34 of Discoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific. 20 RECENT COLONIZATION No 139 III Recent Colonization and Partition from ABOUT 1787 TO THE PRESENT DAY i British Activities The age of recent Pacific colonization and partition really opens with the… -
Image 35 of Discoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific. Pacific BRITISH AND FRENCH ACTIVITIES 21 the Pacific field as of so many others But the apparent security of her colonial position the ease of acquisition whenever and wherever thought suitable resulted… -
Image 36 of Discoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific. 22 RECENT COLONIZATION No 139 Britain secure in the possession of Australia and more lately in that of New Zealand and in her undis puted control of the sea and the colonial… -
Image 37 of Discoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific. The I PacificJ GERMAN ACTIVITIES 23 German propaganda in Samoa and if his will had prevailed Germanys latest colonial possession would have been her earliest 1 The Hamburg firm of Godeffroy even… -
Image 38 of Discoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific. 24 RECENT COLONIZATION No 139 assured the House of Lords in the summer of that year July 2 that any attempt of a foreign Power to settle in New Guinea would be… -
Image 39 of Discoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific. The I Pacific GERMAN ACTIVITIES 25 important AngloGerman Agreement of 1899 Germany transferred to Great Britain the Northern Solomons with the exception of Bougainville and Buka After a disputed claim 1885 between… -
Image 40 of Discoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific. 26 RECENT COLONIZATION o 139 in July of that year 1 Before 1890 a British protec torate had been expected by many and for many years after Cook and Vancouver the group…
About this Item
Title
- Discoveries and acquisitions in the Pacific.
Names
- Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section.
Created / Published
- London, H. M. Stationery off., 1920.
Headings
- - Voyages and travels
- - Islands of the Pacific. [from old catalog]
- - Pacific Ocean
Notes
- - "Appendix" (p. [27]-32): Extracts from treaties, etc., relating to Islands of the Pacific.
- - "Authorities": p. [33]-35.
Medium
- 4 p.l., 35 p. 22 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- DU19 .G7
- D6 .G7 no. 139 Copy 2.
Digital Id
Library of Congress Control Number
- a22000996
Online Format
- image
- online text