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The continent and islands of Asia: with all the latest discoveries
1809
Vietnam, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Malaysia, Laos, Indonesia, East Timor, Cambodia, Brunei
Southeast Asia is on the last sheet of this map of Asia. The South China Sea is labelled ‘Malayan Sea’. Small islands, shoals and reefs are shown. A label in Cochin China (Vietnam) reads ‘mountains inhabited by the uncivilized people called Kemoys’.
The Eastern Hemisphere
1801
Myanmar, Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Southeast Asia, Singapore, Philippines
Published by the English cartographer John Cary (c.1754–1835), this map is marked with the routes taken from Europe to Asia by the British Royal Navy captains James Cook, John Gore, and George Vancouver, as well as the French explorer Lapérouse.
A new chart of the Oriental Seas and Islands... from the Isle of Ceylon to Amoye in China
1790
Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Vietnam
A late 18th century maritime map of Southeast Asia, marked with expedition routes including the return of Captain Cook’s HMS Endeavour from Australia in 1770, and Captain Philip Carteret’s circumnavigation expedition in 1768.
The isles of Sonda
1680
Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore
From Robert Morden’s ‘Geography Rectified’, a description with maps of the known world in the late 17th century. Text describes the peoples of the uplands of the Sunda Islands as ‘Pagans’, while the coastal peoples are ‘Mahumetans [Muslims]’.
- Indonesia5
- Brunei4
- Malaysia4
- Singapore4
- Cambodia3
- East Timor3
- Laos3
- Myanmar3
- Philippines3
- Southeast Asia3
- Thailand3
- Vietnam3
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- Borneo5
- Java5
- [remove]Sunda Islands5
- Celebes4
- Malay Peninsula4
- Sulawesi4
- Sumatra4
- China Sea3
- Isles of Sunda3
- Maluku Islands3
- South China Sea3
- Birman Empire2
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- Bathymetry2