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The Voyage of Torres. Brett Hilder. xxxiii + 194 pp. Maps and illustrations. University of Queensland Press. Distributed in the United Kingdom by Prentice-Hall International, Hemel Hempstead, 1980, £12.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 1981

Charles H. Cotter
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The Journal of Navigation , Volume 34 , Issue 2 , May 1981 , pp. 315 - 317
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1981

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NOTES AND REFERENCES

1 For a scholarly account of South-west Pacific voyages of discovery, see Jack-Hinton, C. (1969), The Search for the Islands of Solomon 15671–838 (Oxford)Google Scholar.

2 Stevens, H. N., (editor) (1930). New Light on the Discovery of Australia, as Revealed by the Journal of Captain Don Diego de Prado y Tovar. Spanish text, with English translation, of Prado's Relación of the voyage begun in company with Quiros and Torres in 1607. London: Hakluyt SocietyGoogle Scholar.

3 Kelly, C., (Editor) (1966). La Austrialia del Espiritu Santo, 2 vols. London: Hakluyt SocietyGoogle Scholar.

4 In the sailing orders set out by Quiros, Torres was required to take observations of the Crucero (Southern Cross). The results of such observations, made at night using a mariner's astrolabe, must have been very crude or even worthless.

5 Hilder, B., (1977). The first navigation of the Torres Strait. This Journal, 30, 459Google Scholar.

6 Osborn, J. H., (1977). Torres Strait and the Inner Route. This Journal, 30, 21Google Scholar.

7 Ingleton, C. C., (1978). The first navigation of theTorres Strait. This Journal, 31, 232Google Scholar.