Santorini
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This 1848 chart records Santorini, then labelled Santorin Island or Ancient Thera, from a survey by Captain Thomas Graves of HMS Volage. Coastline detail, offshore soundings and the island’s central caldera make it a distinctive early survey chart. Fine art reproduction, supplied unframed.
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Historical Background
The chart presents Santorini as a place to be measured from the sea: the island’s curved volcanic rim, the water inside the caldera and the surrounding soundings are all carefully recorded. Its title identifies the survey as Captain Thomas Graves’s work aboard HMS Volage in 1848. The map accompanied a paper on the volcanic group of Santorin or Thera in the 1850 volume of the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society.
Map Details
- Subject: Santorini (Santorin Island / Ancient Thera)
- Surveyor: Captain Thomas Graves, F.R.G.S.
- Survey vessel: HMS Volage
- Survey date: 1848
Rather than treating the island as a simple outline, the chart shows the broken, steep-sided coast and the enclosed water that define Santorini’s volcanic landscape. Soundings mark the depth around the shore and across the caldera, while a scale and compass rose support the chart’s practical purpose. These details also make the sheet rewarding to examine closely.
The reproduction preserves the chart’s restrained, monochrome appearance and its dense coastal notation. It is a useful choice for readers interested in historic hydrography, the mapping of Greek islands and the way a nineteenth-century survey made a volcanic landscape legible from the water.
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