• Title
  Shore-bearing plate belonging to Captain Cook
• Call number
  SAFE/LR 31
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1760-1779
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Objects
• Reference code
  447359
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  Objects - 1 brass instrument containing compass, protractor and swivelling arms with sights on ends. Compass supports engraved with fish-like designs. Stored in wooden box - compass needle missing; 2 sights broken
  
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• General note
  
  Col. Sec. Corres. re: history and source of relics placed at A3936 states that instrument was used by Cook on the Endeavour
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823536
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  T Pouilly Inventor Fecit Parisiis 1684 -- engraved on base of protractor
• Subject
  Cook, James, 1728-1779.
  Cook, James, 1728-1779--Relics.
  
• Topic
  navigational instruments
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Encounters : Horizons Gallery - National Museum of Australia
  Learning Services Program display 2014-2015 - State Library of New South Wales (January, 2014 - January, 2015)

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