Hong Kong after Belcher and Collinson

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Hong Kong.

BELCHER, Admiral Sir Edward and COLLINSON, Lieutenant R.E.
[1879].
Lithographed chart.
144 by 212mm. (5.75 by 8.25 inches).
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A chart of Hong Kong drawn after Capt. Sir Edward Belcher's important survey of 1841, the first British survey of Hong Kong harbour; and the land survey by Lt. Collinson R.E. (Lt. Richard Collinson's brother) of 1846.

The chart shows the whole of Hong Kong island, the Kowloon peninsula, part of the adjacent island of Lan Tao, Peng Chau, Hei Ling Chau, Lamma, Sheung Sze Mun, Po Toi and Tung Lung Chau.

The British Hydrographic Office was founded in 1795...

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