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British New Guinea: Sketch plan showing the route traversed by His Excellency Sir Wm. Macgregor... from the Mambre mouth to the village of Gosisi on the Vanapa
1897
Papua New Guinea
Map of the Mambare River from Mount Victoria to the sea at Duvira (or Traitors) Bay, British New Guinea. Villages, bases, camps and stores are marked, and there are notes on terrain (‘Low Hills’), vegetation (‘Betal Palms’), river width, rapids etc.
Sketch map of the head of Collingwood Bay
1892
Papua New Guinea
Map of Collingwood Bay, north coast of New Guinea, with bearings to mountains, bathymetry (sea depth), shoals and reefs. On land, notes on terrain (‘sloping plains’, ‘Stiff clay soil’), vegetation (‘Casuarina trees’) and people (‘FRIENDLY TRIBE’).
New sketch map of the protected Malay State of Perak
1892
Malaysia
Map of state of Perak (Malay Peninsula) with a table of statistics: area, population, road/railway/river lengths, revenue, tin exports. Straits Settlements highlighted red. Someone has added handwritten travel times/distances by steamer/road/train.
Rough sketch plan of St. Joseph District, British New Guinea
1890
Papua New Guinea
Map of part of British New Guinea with notes on terrain (‘Swamp’), vegetation (‘Grass & wood patches with old gardens’) and people (‘Oru tribe’), and three elevation views of mountain ranges. Some villages are marked as having ‘resident teachers’.
Kaart van de Afdeeling Deli der residentie Oostkust van Sumatra
1887
Indonesia
A map of the department of Deli, Java, divided into administrative districts, and spread over eight sheets. Rivers, railways, roads and paths, forests and mountains, and crops—rice, coconut, pepper, nutmeg, alang-alang—are marked.
Plan of Port Moresby and the road to the Lolokie River: New Giunea
1887
Papua New Guinea
This map focuses on the capital city of British New Guinea, Port Moresby, and the road heading north-east from the city to the Laloki River. Along the road, there are descriptions of the terrain (‘Open flat fairly grasses timbered with bastard Gum’).
Plan topographique de l'arrondissement de Bien-Hoa
1881
Vietnam
Two-sheet map of the district of Bien-Hoa (Biên Hòa) east of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The area is dominated by rivers, wetlands and mangroves. Labels describe the terrain e.g. ‘Bois marécageux avec rivières [Swampy woods with rivers]’.
Map of Prince of Wales' Island or Pulo Penang and province Wellesley
1853
Malaysia
Map of the Penang Strait, including written instructions on how to navigate the strait. On land, areas of cultivation are marked, with a table listing acreage used for each crop. A boundary with Siam based on an 1831 treaty is also shown.
- British New Guinea4
- New Guinea4
- Dutch East Indies3
- Malay Peninsula3
- Penang3
- Province Wellesley3
- Straits Settlements3
- Sumatra3
- Dindings Territory2
- Manjung District2
- Perak2
- Pulau Pinang2
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- Mountain/Volcano12
- Wetlands11
- Jungle/Wooded Area4
- [remove]Contour Lines/Elevation12
- Scale11
- Longitude and Latitude5
- Written Note/Details5
- Compass Rose4
- Lefroy, G.A.2
- Azeem, Mohomed1
- Binard, A.1
- Geisendörfer, J.1
- Gélas1
- Jekyll, Captain1
- Lassalle1
- MacGregor, Sir William1
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- Surveyor General's Office, Brisbane4
- Intelligence Division, War Office2
- Stanford's Geographical Establishment2
- Edmund Gregory1
- Lemercier et Cie.1
- School of Military Engineering, Chatham1
- Service du Cadastre de Cochinchine1
- Surveyor General's Office, Calcutta1
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