Image: Telegraphic Determination of Longitude of Paita from Admiralty Chart No 1335, Published 1841 (cropped)
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Description: Detail of Paita, Peru, from nautical chart of the coast of Peru from Rio Chicama to Puerto de Paita, at a scale of 1:585,000. The detail shows the result of the determination longitude made using telegraphic observations in March 1884. The chart was first published in 1841, but includes later additions and corrections.
Title: Telegraphic Determination of Longitude of Paita from Admiralty Chart No 1335, Published 1841 (cropped)
Credit: Scan of original Admiralty Chart
Author: Hydrographic Office of the Admiralty
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