I French Naval Operations in Spitsbergen Dur*g Louis XIV’s Reign

• Main Authors: Philippe Henrat, La France Arctique
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Jan Mayen; Kobbefjord; Kongsfjord; Port Louis; Arctic; Kongsfjord*; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.484.105; http://pubs.aina.ucalgary.ca/arctic/Arctic37-4-544.pdf

lished a detailed description of a highly unusual naval chart, undated but probably drawn around A.D. 1630. This valuable document, the property of a British collector, showed “without question, Spitsbergen, the name places be-ing partly in French while, in the middle of the chart, is a coat of u r...