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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.
Map of Eastern New Guinea: illustrating a paper by Sir Wm. MacGregor
1897
Indonesia, Papua New Guinea
Map of eastern New Guinea, showing the routes—mainly along rivers—explored by Sir William MacGregor, the administrator of British New Guinea. The borders with the German colonial territory (Kaiser-Wilhelmsland) and Dutch New Guinea are also marked.
Queensland and British New Guinea
1897
Indonesia, Papua New Guinea
New Guinea is divided between British, German and Dutch colonial powers on this map of New Guinea and Australia. There is a line marking the boundary between the British and German spheres of influence. Bays and islands around the coast are named.
Deutsche Kolonien
c.1896-1900
Indonesia, Papua New Guinea
From Joseph Kürschner’s ‘Universal-Konversations-Lexikon’, this map of German colonies includes the island of New Guinea. Divided between Dutch, British and German colonies, the German territory is Kaiser-Wilhelmsland and the Bismarck Archipelago.
Stanford's Map of the Empires of China & Japan with the adjacent parts of the Russian Empire, India, Burma &c.
1896
Myanmar, Vietnam
The most northern part of Southeast Asia is shown on this map of China and Japan, with Burma (Myanmar) and Tong-King (Vietnam) appearing at the bottom of the map. Mountains, rivers and settlements are marked, as well as a railway line in Burma.
Kaiser Wilhelms-Land: Das Hinterland der Astrolabe-Bucht bis zum Ramu-Fluss
1896
Papua New Guinea
Map of part of the north coast of Kaiser-Wilhelmsland (German New Guinea) spread over two sheets. It focuses on rivers, noting width, depth, temperature, currents, vegetation etc.; and on mountains, showing heights and side views (elevations).
Route chart to India and the East
1895
Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Vietnam
Map of Asia featuring steamship routes—including around Southeast Asia—connecting ports such as Penang, Singapore, Batavia (Jakarta), Saigon, Bangkok, Rangun (Yangon), Manila, Macassar (Makassar) etc. There is also an inset map of Singapore.
Kaart van het Westelijk gedeelte bezet in Groot-Atjèh
1895
Indonesia
This map of Groot-Atjèh (Aceh, northern Sumatra) focuses on the western part occupied during the Aceh War. It shows mountains, wetlands, forests, villages, routes and crops (rice, coconut, banana, sugar, sugarcane, bamboo, alang-alang, betel).
- Indonesia134
- Malaysia122
- Myanmar112
- Thailand100
- Singapore93
- Brunei79
- Vietnam78
- Philippines72
- Cambodia71
- East Timor70
- Laos68
- Southeast Asia59
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- Sumatra96
- Borneo89
- Malay Peninsula88
- Siam81
- Celebes73
- Java73
- Sulawesi73
- South China Sea65
- Western New Guinea61
- Dutch East Indies47
- Maluku Islands42
- Straits Settlements35
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- Kampong/Village36
- Military Fort34
- Military Barracks22
- Cemetery/Columbarium21
- Hospital16
- Residential Area15
- Church14
- Missionary Building7
- Mosque7
- Jail/Prison6
- Police Station6
- Public Space6
- Palace4
- Post Office4
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- [remove]Colonial Possessions198
- District/Administrative Border79
- Regional Border79
- National Border55
- Civic/Metropolitan Border22
- [remove]Scale198
- Longitude and Latitude181
- Contour Lines/Elevation118
- Written Note/Details56
- Compass Rose26
- Rhumbline Network1
- Stülpnagel, Friedrich von10
- Berghaus, Heinrich Karl Wilhelm8
- Arrowsmith, John6
- Melvill van Carnbee, Pieter6
- Moll, Herman6
- Alt, Wilhelm4
- Bachiene, Willem Albert4
- Berghaus, Hermann4
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- Justus Perthes26
- Survey of India Offices, Calcutta23
- Edward Stanford16
- Intelligence Division, War Office15
- Adolf Stieler14
- Topographische Inrichting12
- Stanford's Geographical Establishment10
- Bibliographisches Institut8
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- London38
- Gotha26
- Batavia12
- Dehradun10
- Edinburgh10
- The Hague10
- Hildburghausen9
- Amsterdam5
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