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DescriptionGallapagos Islands 1684.jpg	English: Galapagos Islands, described by Ambrose Cowley in 1684. John Russell's revision of Cowley's original map, with the note The Island Santa Maria de l'Aguada, according to its situation from Albemarle Island, is added from the Chart published by M^r. Arrowsmith. The map continues to use longitude reckoned from The Lizard, a cape in western Cornwall, rather than the Greenwich Observatory.
Date	1816, revision of a 1684 map
Source	James Burney's A Chronological History of the Discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean, Vol. IV, p. 145.
Author	John Russell, based on an map by William Ambrosia Cowley with influence from Emanuel Bowen and William Arrowsmith's separate revisions

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	21:17, 11 May 2023	1,845 × 2,020 (335 KB)	LlywelynII	Cropped using CropTool to the size of the actual map pasted onto the book page.
	21:13, 11 May 2023	2,148 × 2,892 (437 KB)	LlywelynII	Much higher quality version from archive.org copy of the work
	20:10, 11 May 2023	672 × 845 (413 KB)	LlywelynII	Reverted to version as of 18:11, 11 November 2010 (UTC) These are completely different maps from different sources and the original shouldn't've been replaced.
	19:12, 25 September 2012	2,357 × 3,831 (10.46 MB)	Jojagal	Mapa de las Islas Galápagos según el Capitán Cowley (1684) - AHG
	18:11, 11 November 2010	672 × 845 (413 KB)	Alcmaeonid	{{Information \|Description={{en\|1=Map of the Galapagos Islands as described by Ambrose Cowlev in 1684.}} \|Source=A chronological history of the discoveries in the South Sea or Pacific Ocean ; illustrated with charts volume 4 \|Author=James Burney \|Date=180