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Rare map of the North Polar regions, executed by Antonio Zatta at the end of the 18th Century.
The map illustrates the Voyages of Phipps and a Russian explorerer by the name of Otcheredin. Otcheredin would seem to have been a Russian Fur Trader, who made an expedition into the polar regions in 1779 or 1780 and for whom Acheredin Point is named.
Constantine Phipps, 2nd Baron of Mulgrave, was an English explorer and officer in the Royal Navy. He served during the Seven Years' War and the American War of Independence. Phipps was elected to Parliament in the 1768. On June 4, 1773, Phipps set off from Deptford on a voyage towards the North Pole. He had two ships, the Racehorse and the Carcass. Phipps took with him Dr Irving, as naturalist and doctor, and Israel Lyons (1739-1775) as astronomer. The Carcass was commanded by Skeffington Lutwidge, while one of her midshipmen was a young Horatio Nelson. They sailed beyond Svalbard to the Seven Islands, but were forced back by the ice and returned to Orfordness on September 17, 1773. During the voyage Phipps was the first European to describe the polar bear and the ivory gull, which were included in his A Voyage towards the North Pole undertaken ... 1773 (1774).
Antonio Zatta (fl. 1757-1797) was a prominent Italian editor, cartographer, and publisher. Little is known about his life beyond his many surviving published works. It is possible that he was born as early as 1722 and lived as late as 1804. He lived in Venice and his work flourished between 1757 and 1797. He is best known for his atlas, Atlante Novissimo (1779-1785), and for his prolific output of prints and books that were both precisely made and aesthetically pleasing. Zatta clearly had a large network from which to draw information; this is how he was able to publish the first glimpse of the islands visited by Captain Cook in the Atlante Novissimo. Zatta also published books of plays and architecture.
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