Vintage Large-Format 1936 Map PACIFIC OCEAN ISLANDS Airways Steamship Routes

Description

Handsome fold-out wall-size color lithographed 1936 map of the Pacific Ocean, with 73 insets of islands and island groups, printed more than 82 years ago.
This map opens to a generous 80.2 x 99 cm [31½" x 39"] and is drawn on a scale of 1:35,000,000.
It shows highways, railroads, airways, principal steamship routes (with distances in nautical miles), and natural features.
It is surrounded by 73 smaller maps, on various scales, of islands, island groups, and cities, including Fiji, Tonga, Tahiti, Papeete, New Caledonia, Noumea, New Hebrides, Western Samoa, Easter Island, Nauru, Marianas, Bismarck Archipelago, Yap, Tarawa, Tinian, Saipan, Solomon Islands, Guam, Wake, Pitcairn, Gilbert and Ellice, Pago Pago, Hawaiian Islands, Pearl Harbor, Suva, Rarotonga, the Aleutian Islands, and many more.
This map was published by the National Geographic Society in December 1936 and is dated in the legend.
Condition:
It is in very good condition, bright and clean, with
no
marks, rips or tears. It folds to approximately 9¾" x 6½" and is blank on the back, with no printing on the reverse side. Please see the scans and feel free to ask any questions.
This is an
original
, authentic 1936 map,
not
a reproduction or modern reprint, and it is fully guaranteed to be genuine.
Barely five years after it was printed, Japanese warplanes attacked the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, and for the next four years the waters of this vast ocean would be anything buy pacific.
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