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Re: James Cook's Northeastern North American Coastal Charting
From: Jim Wyse
Date: 2024 Feb 14, 12:00 -0800
From: Jim Wyse
Date: 2024 Feb 14, 12:00 -0800
Navlisters following the tread on James Cook's activities in the Burgeo Islands with respect to the eclipse events of 05Apr1766 may find the attached entry in a 1767 issue of the Royal Society's Philosophical Transaction of some interest.
Fast-forward 258 years to the upcoming 2024 eclipse, it seems that Burgeo's Eclipse Island will once again witness a solar eclipse. Here's a report from Space.com on Eclipse Island:
https://www.space.com/eclipse-themed-places-on-path-totality-april-2024
Embedded in the Space.com report is a 4-min flyover of the NA path of the eclipse (credited to Michael Zeiler). Burgeo comes into view on the path's right side from 3:08 to about 3:20.
Cheers,
Jim.
