1835
Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand
Navigation map of the southern South China Sea, with bathymetry (sea depth), islands, shoals and reefs marked. There are four maritime routes to China marked, with notes on what months or monsoon season to use them. Inset map of Gulf of Thailand.
1835
Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand
Navigation map of the southern South China Sea, with bathymetry (sea depth), islands, shoals and reefs marked. There are four maritime routes to China marked, with notes on what months or monsoon season to use them. Inset map of Gulf of Thailand.
c.1800-1899
Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam
This map of Asia, from an atlas by the German cartographer Karl von Spruner, is colour-coded to show territorial regions in Asia from the 6th to the 9th centuries. Thailand is labelled 'Siang-koue' and Vietnam is 'Tschn-tschin'.
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