Description
A view from the sea of a symmetrical volcanic peak, identified from the text of Ellis' Voyage, Vol. II, p. 281 'A sugarloaf hill bore S. E. by E. and a part of the land making in a kind of a cape N. E. This cape was denominated Shoal Ness by Captain Cook ...' and by comparison with the peak on the recto of this sheet (A-264-043-1)
Drawn on Cook's third circumnavigation
Other Titles - Snow-covered peak rising from cloud, possibly Shoal Ness Cape, Unalaschka, Aleutian Islands [former title]
Image Licence
All Rights Reserved
Image Credit
Alexander Turnbull Library
Location
Isanotski Peaks, Aleutians East, Alaska, USA
Country
USA
Tags
Category
Landscapes & Seascapes
TWW Comment
Isanotski Peaks or Isanotski Volcano, known locally as "Ragged Jack"
