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Map of British New Guinea, focusing on the sea (islands, shoals, reefs), coast (settlements, bays), mountains and land (‘dense forest’, ‘timbered with Eucalyptus’). Inset maps of Port Moresby, Samarai Island, and the whole island of New Guinea.

Map of the state of Perak (Malay Peninsula) with a table of statistics: area, population, road/railway/river lengths, revenue, tin exports. Gold and tin mines are marked, and the Straits Settlements are highlighted in red.

Map of state of Perak (Malay Peninsula) with a table of statistics: area, population, road/railway/river lengths, revenue, tin exports. Straits Settlements highlighted red. Someone has added handwritten travel times/distances by steamer/road/train.

Topographic map of the residency of Pekalongan (Central Java), divided into regencies (pink borders) and districts (yellow borders). Mountains, forests, settlements, routes, crops—alang-alang, coffee, sugar, rice—factories and warehouses are shown.

Very detailed six-sheet map of eastern New Guinea, with numerous inset maps of bays and islands, and other inset maps covering ethnography, explorers of the region, marine routes across the Pacific Ocean, cannibalism, missionaries activity etc.

Southeast Asia is on sheet four of this map. British colonial territory—British Burma, the Straits Settlements, Sarawak, British North Borneo—is highlighted in red, with the Dutch East Indies, Spanish Philippines and Portuguese East Timor also shown.

Map marking the border (in orange) agreed between British and Dutch territory on Borneo in 1891. Alternative borders are shown: according to the Dutch (blue), according to the British North Borneo Society (yellow) and proposed by the British (green).

A map recording five Dutch expeditions through the Karo Lands of northern Sumatra. The mountainous terrain is represented by contour lines, with peaks’ heights marked. The names of groups of the indigenous Karo people are shown in large letters.

A map of the residency of Kediri (East Java) divided into regencies, which are then subdivided into districts. Mountains, roads, railways and rivers are shown. An inset map shows distances between settlements by road, tracks and paths.

Map of an expedition route—in red—through the country of the Batak people of northern Sumatra, from Lake Toba to Loemban-Pinasa (Lumban Pinasa) and Djandji. Mountains and forests are shown, along with two drawings of views of hills.

Hand-drawn map of the Karo Lands of northern Sumatra. The mountainous terrain is represented by brown contour lines, with rivers in blue, and villages named.

Map marking the border (in orange) agreed between British and Dutch territory on Borneo in 1891. Alternative borders are shown: according to the Dutch (blue), according to the British North Borneo Society (yellow) and proposed by the British (green).