......[Christmas Channel on the Southeast Coast of Tierra del Fuego] An antique chart of Christmas Sound in Tierra del Fuego, which Capt Cook entered on his second voyage staying from December 20th - 28th, 1774, making for Cape Horn. Printed in 1794, from the French Edition of Captain Cook's second Pacific voyage. On the 20 th of December he found a harbour at the western entrance of the Straits of Magellan where he remained a week. To it and its neighbouring waters to the west of Cape Horn, explored by Pickersgill, Clerke and himself, he gave the name Christmas Sound (still used today). Known names were few, so Cook began to add to them: Cape Desolation for his sentiment, Gilbert Island after his master, and on the 19 th he named York Minster for of its two high towers, eight hundred feet almost perpendicular from the sea, the southernmost point of an island.
Approx 16.5cms by 21.5cms.
