Kōrero: Charting the sea floor

‘HMS the Acheron’ (2 o 2)

‘HMS the Acheron’

The Acheron was a 655-tonne wooden paddle steamer which also had sails. Between 1848 and 1851 it surveyed much of the New Zealand coast. Many of the charts created by its crew were used for the next century. By the time the New Zealand navy obtained its first survey vessel, the Lachlan, in 1949, the majority of available charts were nearly 100 years old.

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Alexander Turnbull Library
Reference: C-059-006
Ink and wash drawing by unidentified artist

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Lionel Carter, 'Charting the sea floor - First charts of New Zealand', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/artwork/5956/hms-the-acheron (accessed 30 March 2024)

He kōrero nā Lionel Carter, i tāngia i te 12 Jun 2006