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Kaart van het Midden-en Zuidelyk Gedeelte van den Molukschen Archipel

event1854

location_onIndonesia, East Timor

Map of some of the Maluku islands around the Banda Sea, colour-coded by their administrative region, and with an elevation showing heights of mountains. (From ‘Algemeene Atlas van Nederlandsche Indie [General Atlas of the Dutch East Indies]’.)

[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.

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