In the history of exploration, J. H. Colton is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists J. H. Colton as United-States geographer and mapmaker.
J. H. Colton was born at Longmeadow in 1800. His recorded nationality is United States.
Enlightenment expeditions carried naturalists and instruments; the Pacific was charted with chronometers and the intention of measuring, not merely claiming.
He is recorded as geographer, cartographer and publisher.
Distance was the hardest problem of the pre-modern world, and it was solved by people willing to risk it.
J. H. Colton died in 1893, aged 93. The routes and charts outlived the journey, which is how exploration is actually measured.
Achievements
- Recorded as geographer, cartographer and publisher
