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A new chart of the eastern straits to China drawn from the best authorities

event1800

location_onIndonesia

Two maps of routes around the Flores and Banda seas—through the straits between the Lesser Sunda Islands and the Maluku Islands—towards China. Includes a rhumbline network—a web of lines to help plot routes—bathymetry (sea depth), shoals and reefs.

[Dutch portolan chart of the Lesser Sunda Islands]

eventc.1700

location_onIndonesia, East Timor

Hand-drawn portolan (nautical) chart of the Lesser Sunda Islands, featuring a rhumbline network (the web of interconnected lines), shoals, reefs, elevations (side views of landmark mountains), and names of coastal settlements, all to aid navigation.

Indonesische archipel en Australië

event1630

location_onIndonesia, East Timor

This seventeenth century map focuses on the Sunda Islands of maritime Southeast Asia, and features a rhumbline network, a web of lines to help plot routes and aid navigation.

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