Title of the map:

"View of SULPHUR island bearing ENE."

Detailed antique copper engraved nautical chart with coastal views of Sulphur islands in Japan, by William Bligh (1754-1817).

The relief is shown pictorially, depths by soundings, the plate shows coastal features and ship's track.

Sulphur islands is an island of the Japanese Volcano Islands chain south of the Ogasawara Islands and together with them form the Ogasawara Archipelago also known as the Bonin Islands. It was discovered by Spanish sailor Bernardo de la Torre who named it Sufre Island, after the old Spanish term for sulphur (azufre in modern Spanish). At that time Iwo Jima and other islands were the limit between the Spanish, and Portuguese Empires in the far East. In 1779, the island was charted as Sulphur Island, the literal translation of its official name, during Captain James Cook third voyage.

Edition : "Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, undertaken by the Command of His Majesty, for making discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. Performed under the direction of Captains Cook, Clerke and Gore, in His Majesty's ships the Resolution and Discovery , in the years 1776, 1777, 1778, 1779 and 1780, written by Captain James Cook," London, G. Nicol and T. Cadell, 1785, 18th Century.

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