Saint Thomas (island)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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Duplicate of a letter from John McGhie to the Board of Longitude, 1813-10-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/38: 275-276
Scope and Contents
For another copy of this letter, see [RGO 14/38: 270].
Dates:
1813-10-10
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Royal Greenwich Observatory Archives
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Papers of the Board of Longitude
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Correspondence regarding methods and instruments used to establish longitude and the use of chronometers at sea
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John McGhie's instrument for finding the longitude by the passing of the sun over the meridian
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San Thomas' [i.e. Sao Tome] Island, 1884-02-25
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y305K/24
Scope and Contents
290 x 220 mm. A view from a height looking over shacks and more imposing residences towards distant jungle. With clothes drying on the banks of the stream in the foreground. A view presumably taken in Sao Tome, the capital of the island and situated on the north-east coast. Sao Tome, situated 150 miles north-west of Cape Lopez in the Gulf of Guinea was at this period part of the Portuguese Colony of Sao Tome e Principe, its neighbouring island. Discovered in 1470-1471, Sao Tome had been...
Dates:
1884-02-25
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Sydney Tyers album
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St Thomas, 1885
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y307A/62
Scope and Contents
224 x 178 mm. A view showing the harbour and town of St Thomas (the town itself is alternatively named Charlotte Amalia), the most westerly of the American Virgin Islands. At the time this photograph was taken (c.1885) the island belonged to Denmark. This photograph is taken from the landing wharf on the other side of the harbour from the town, and shows the three hills known as the fore-top, the main-top and the mizzen-top which rise beyond it. The photograph shows some good examples of...
Dates:
1885
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).