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440460
  • Title
    James Alden - Journal, 1838-1842
  • Creator
  • Call number
    PMB 89
  • Level of description
    fonds
  • Date

    Canberra : Pacific Manuscripts Bureau [19--]
  • Type of material
  • Reference code
    440460
  • Issue Copy
    Microfilm : PMB 89
  • Physical Description
    ne microfilm reel 35 mm
  • ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY

    Alden was an officer in the sloop-of-war Vincennes, the flagship of the United States Exploring Expedition which spent four years in the Pacific under the command of Commodore Charles Wilkes
  • Scope and Content
    The journal gives an account - but not a day-by-day account - of the Vincennes' voyage which took in the Tuamotu Archipelago, Tahiti, Samoa, Fiji, Australia, New Zealand, the Antarctic, Hawaii, the Gilbert, Ellice and Marshall Islands
  • General note

    PMB (Australian National University. Pacific Manuscripts Bureau) ; 89
    Available for reference
    Microfilm copy of original held by Mariners Museum, Newport News, Virginia, U.S.A.
    United States Exploring Expedition, (1838-1842)
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