Pacific Ocean Collection (page 5)

The Apollo 15 capsule lands safely despite a parachute failure, Mid-Pacific Ocean, 1971. Artist: NASA
The Apollo 15 capsule lands safely despite a parachute failure, Mid-Pacific Ocean, 7th August 1971

South Head, Port Jackson, 1879. Artist: McFarlane and Erskine
South Head, Port Jackson, 1879. Port Jackson is the natural harbour of Sydney. A print from The History of Australasia, by David Blair, McGrady, Thomson, and Niven, 1879

Panama City from Mount Ancon, c1890. From Universal Geography, Maps & Illustrations, Vol XXXIV, Virtue & Co Limited, (London, c1890)

Indefatigable Island, Galapagos Archipelago, 1895. From The Universal Geography with Illustrations and Maps, division XXXVI, written by Elisee Reclus and published by Virtue & Co

United States Men-Of-War passing through a lock, Panama Canal, Panama, 1926
United States Men-Of-War passing through a lock, Panama Canal, 1926. The idea of building a canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans was first planned by the French civil engineer

The Conquerors, Culebra Cut, Panama Canal, Panama, 1926. The Gaillard (or Culebra) Cut, is a man-made valley cutting through the continental divide in Panama

A lock on the Panama Canal, Panama, 1926. The idea of building a canal between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans was first planned by the French civil engineer and builder of the Suez Canal

Cliff House and Seal Rocks, Golden Gate, California, USA, 1893. Artist: John L Stoddard
Cliff House and Seal Rocks, Golden Gate, California, USA, 1893. Illustration from Portfolio of Photographs of Famous Cities, Scenes and Paintings, (The Werner Company, Chicago, c1893)

Russian gunboat Bobre at New Chwang, Manchuria, Russo-Japanese War, 1904. Artist: Underwood & Underwood
Russian gunboat Bobre at New Chwang, Manchuria, Russo-Japanese War, 1904. Stereoscopic slide

How We Go to Cricket in the Solomon Islands, 1912. From Imperial Cricket, edited by P F Warner and published by The London and Counties Press Association Ltd (London, 1912)

A Canoe of the Sandwich Islands, late 18th century. Artist: Page
A Canoe of the Sandwich Islands, late 18th century. In the North Pacific Ocean with Rowers Masked. The Sandwich Islands are now known as Hawaii

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, c1920s. Cigarette card produced by the Westminster Tobacco Co Ltd, Canada 1st series

Fishermens huts, Borneo, 19th century. Artist: T Weber
Fishermens huts, Borneo, 19th century

Sydney Heads from the south, New South Wales, Australia, 1886. Artist: Frederic B Schell
Sydney Heads from the south, New South Wales, Australia, 1886. Sydney Heads, also known as The Heads, is the entrance to Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour)

Captain Blighs boat abandoned by the Bounty, 1789 (1886). Artist: JR Ashton
Captain Blighs boat abandoned by the Bounty, 1789 (1886). William Bligh is best known for the mutiny that occurred against his command, aboard HMS Bounty

Jean Francois Galaup, comte de La Perouse, French naval officer and explorer, (1886). Artist: W Macleod
Jean Francois Galaup, comte de La Perouse, French naval officer and explorer, (1886). La Perouse (1741-c1788) commanded a French expedition to explore the Pacific which set out in 1785

Burial of Captain Cooks remains at sea, 1779 (1886). Wood engraving from Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, Vol I, by Andrew Garran, illustrated under the supervision of Frederic B Schell

The Endeavour on the reef, Australia, 1770 (1886). The Endeavour, commanded by Captain James Cook ran aground on the Great Barrier Reef on 10 June 1770

Brisbane From Bowen Terrace, 1886. View of steamships in the harbour at Brisbane, the capital city of Queensland, Australia

Sydney, Australia, 19th century. Artist: Aubert
Sydney, Australia, 19th century

Australian Inhabitants, 1800-1850. Artist: G Mutzel
Australian Inhabitants, 1800-1850. Far from being one homogenous race, at the time of European settlement in the 18th century, the estimated 750

View of Punta Arenas, Costa Rica, 1877. View of a steamboat and sailing ships at Puntarenas in the Gulf of Nicoya on the Pacific Coast

Pitcairn Island, Pacific Ocean, 1877. The islands are best known for being the home of the descendants of the Bounty mutineers and the Tahitians who accompanied them

Sydney, Australia, 1883. Artist: G Greatbach
Sydney, Australia, 1883. View of ships in the harbour

Sinking of the Russian battleship Petropavlosk, Russo-Japanese War, 13th April 1904. The Russian ironclad Petropavlosk was sunk by a Japanese mine off Port Arthur with the loss of 600 lives

Map of North America. Hand-coloured later

Map of South America. Hand-coloured later

Death of Captain Cook, 1779 (c1819). Artist: Jacques Etienne Victor Arago
Death of Captain Cook, 1779 (c1819). Captain James Cook, (1728-1779), English explorer, navigator and cartographer was killed by inhabitants of Hawaii during his third voyage of discovery

Admiral George Anson in the Centurion taking a Spanish galleon off the Philippines, 1743
Admiral Anson in the Centurion taking a Spanish galleon off the Philippines, 1743 (c1895). Admiral George Anson (1697-1762)

Earth from space, December 1992. The Earth photographed by spacecraft Galileo 11 from a distance of 1.9 million km (1.2 million miles) showing Antarctica and dawn rising over the Pacific Ocean

Wellington, New Zealand, 1875

The quay, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1870-1880

The coast around Port Jackson, New South Wales, Australia, 1885. Port Jackson is the natural harbour of Sydney

Lambton Harbour and Queens Wharf, Wellington, New Zealand, 1870. Artist: James Bragge
Lambton Harbour and Queens Wharf, Wellington, New Zealand, 1870

Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, North Island, New Zealand, 1875

Lyttelton, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand, 1880. Artist: Burton Brothers
Lyttelton, Canterbury, South Island, New Zealand, 1880

Auckland from Mt Eden, New Zealand, 1899. By the end of the 19th century Auckland had grown to be the biggest city in New Zealand

The port, Auckland, New Zealand, c1870-1880

Vasco Nunez de Balboa (1475-1529), Spanish explorer, late 19th century. Balboa founded a colony at Darien, in what is today Panama. He was the first European to sight the Pacific Ocean

Apollo 17 recovery operations, Pacific Ocean, December 19, 1972. Creator: NASA
Apollo 17 recovery operations, Pacific Ocean, December 19, 1972. A water-level view of the Apollo 17 Command Module (CM) " America" floating in the sea following splashdown

Natural Bridge on the Coast near Santa Cruz, California, c1897. Creator: Unknown
Natural Bridge on the Coast near Santa Cruz, California, c1897. Mudstone bridge formed by wave erosion. The first inhabitants in Santa Cruz were Native Americans

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