Description: This historic and original engraving is from Captain James Cook and George William Anderson's "A New , Authentic , and Complete Account of Voyages Round the World, Undertaken and Performed by Royal Authority..." - see scan of cover page, not included. The work was published in London by Alexander Hogg between 1784 and 1786 The engraving entitled "A View in Possession Bay in the Island of South Georgia" is based on the drawing made by William Hodges, the official artist on board, when Cook visited the island on his Second Voyage in 1775 - see below. The island is approximately 875 miles east of the Falkland Islands and is uninhabited. Good condition printed on hand-laid paper - see scans. Page size 15.5 x 10 inches. See more engravings from this publication in Seller's Other Items which can be combined for mailing Note : This is an original antique print published between 1784 and 1786 and not a reproduction. Possession Bay10 languagesArticleTalkReadEditView historyToolsCoordinates: 54°6′S 37°7′WFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaThis article is about the bay in South Georgia. For the bay in the Strait of Magellan, Chile, see Bahía Posesión.Possession BayPossession Bay is a bay 2 miles (3.2 km) wide on the north coast of South Georgia, an island in the southern Atlantic Ocean.[1] It recedes southwest for 5 miles (8 km), and is separated from Cook Bay to the north by Black Head promontory.[2] It is connected to King Haakon Bay by Shackleton Gap, a mountain pass.[3]GeographySeveral features in and around Possession Bay have been charted by various Antarctic expeditions.Black Head is a dark, rugged promontory, 60 metres (200 ft) high, which separates Possession Bay from Cook Bay, to the north.[2] At the head of the bay, Inner Reef extends from the headland Adventure Point on the west side of the bay to Brown Point on the east side.[4] Just south of Adventure Point is Brighton Beach, which extends to Zero Point.[5][6] Zero Point sits at the north side of Assistance Bay, a small bay within the larger Possession Bay.[7][8]On the east side of the bay, Alert Point marks the mouth of Purvis Glacier.[9] Outer Moraine Reef extends from Alert Point to Steep Point.[10] Brown Point sits between Steep Point and Glacier Point.[11]The names Inner Reef, Adventure Point, Brown Point, Outer Moraine Reef, Steep Point, and Glacier Point all appear to have first been used on a 1931 British Admiralty chart.[4][5][11][12][13]Brighton Beach was named by Discovery Investigations (DI) personnel during their 1926–30 expedition, and derives from the beach being as crowded with fauna as Brighton, a popular seaside resort on the south coast of England.[6] DI personnel named Alert Point for their survey motorboat Alert.[9] The names Zero Point and Black Head appear on charts from the same expedition.[7][2]Cook's Second VoyagePossession Bay can be seen on Cook's map, which is oriented south-upwardsIt was discovered and named by a British expedition under Captain James Cook in 1775.[14] Cook made the first known landing on South Georgia in this vicinity.In HMS Resolution and accompanied by HMS Adventure, Cook made the first landing, survey and mapping of South Georgia. As mandated by the Admiralty, on 17 January 1775 he took possessionfor Britain and renamed the island "Isle of Georgia" for King George III. German naturalist Georg Forster, who accompanied Cook during their landings in three separate places at Possession Bay on that day, wrote:"Here Captain Cook displayed the British flag, and performed the ceremony of taking possession of those barren rocks, in the name of his Britannic Majesty, and his heirs forever. A volley of two or three muskets was fired into the air."Cook himself wrote in his log:"The head of the Bay... was terminated by a huge Mass of Snow and ice of vast extent, it shewed a perpendicular clift of considerable height, just like the side or face of an ice isle; pieces were continually breaking from them and floating out to sea. A great fall happened while we were in the Bay; it made a noise like Cannon. The inner parts of the Country was not less savage and horrible... the wild rocks raised their lofty summits until they were lost in the clouds, and the valleys lay buried in everlasting snow. Not a tree was to be seen nor a shrub even big enough to make a tooth-pick."
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Artist: William Hodges
Type: Engraving
Year of Production: 1784
Production Technique: Copper Engraving
Original/Licensed Reprint: Original
Subject: Exploration
