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Commercial highways between United States and Asia and the islands of the Pacific
1900
Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Vietnam
The United States Treasury Department produced this map of trade routes crossing the Pacific Ocean between the United States and Asia. Each route is labelled with the names of its ports, and with the distance between them in miles.
Map of Asia: Printed for the New York Central's 'Four-Track Series'
1900
Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Vietnam, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, Brunei, Laos, Southeast Asia
Colonial territory is labelled and colour-coded on this map of Southeast Asia. A list on the left edge gives the colonial status, size and population of Asian countries, and ranks the main cities by population. Gold and iron mines are marked.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Queensland & British New Guinea
c.1894-1897
Indonesia, Papua New Guinea
The first two sheets of this eight-sheet map focus on British New Guinea, with German and Dutch colonial areas of New Guinea also shown in part. There is a line marking a proposed change in border between Dutch and British territory.
Sketch map shewing the rivers and an outline of the coast... Gulf of Papua, British New Guinea
1893
Papua New Guinea
Map of part of the east coast of the Gulf of Papua, with river mouths, shoals, bathymetry (water depth). On land, notes on terrain (‘Hills 100 to 150 ft. high’), land (‘Good soil’), vegetation (‘Nipa and Sago Palms’) and people (‘Ipikoi Tribe’).
- [remove]Papua New Guinea164
- Indonesia150
- Philippines132
- East Timor130
- Malaysia130
- Singapore129
- Brunei127
- Vietnam125
- Cambodia124
- Southeast Asia124
- Thailand124
- Laos119
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- Sumatra124
- Borneo123
- Java119
- Sulawesi118
- Celebes100
- Western New Guinea99
- Malay Peninsula91
- Maluku Islands77
- Siam76
- South China Sea67
- New Guinea58
- Sunda Islands56
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- Johnston, Keith (A.K.)15
- Johnston, William15
- Berghaus, Heinrich Karl Wilhelm12
- Keyser, Jacob6
- Bellin, Jacques Nicolas5
- Homann, Johann Baptist5
- Moll, Herman5
- Sanson, Nicolas5
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- William Blackwood & Sons14
- Surveyor General's Office, Brisbane13
- Intelligence Division, War Office12
- Isaak Tirion11
- Alexis Hubert Jaillot5
- Bibliographisches Institut4
- Justus Perthes4
- C.L. Brinkman3
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- London48
- Amsterdam20
- Edinburgh19
- Paris14
- Brisbane12
- Nuremberg8
- Augsburg5
- Gotha4
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