For the collector of Antarctica material this map is exceptional in the up to date information it presents related to exploration and discovery. The southern continent is beginning to take shape and is filled with place names and other information. It extends to include all of New Zealand, the Crozet Islands, the Sandwich Group and South Georgia, the Shetlands, and part of South America, Africa, and Australia. Locates Winter Station No. 1 and No. 2, and delineates the "British Land Route" to the South Pole. Around the main map are four hemispheres: Isobars and Winds - February; Mean Temperature - February; Ocean Currents; and Oceanic Deposits. The latter uses color coding to identify something called "Globigerina Ooze" which, if I'm not mistaken was featured in Steve McQueen's first movie; Diatom Ooze; Pteropod Ooze; Red Clay and Terrigenous Deposits. At the sides are more detailed inset maps of Graham Land and the South Shetlands; and Victoria Land. The main map is color coded to suggest land height. Blank verso. An uncommon map published by the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in their official publication on October 1898.

The map was originally published in September 1898 by the Royal Geographical Society under the title "Antarctic regions : maps showing present state of research." A few small changes were made in the Scottish edition including the addition of the limits of 'British and American sphere’ & 'German and Scandinavian sphere’ to the Ocean Currents hemisphere.

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Condition: B+

The map is actually fine but has a 4" closed tear into the Isobars & Winds hemisphere at upper right.