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Schets van Malakka en omstreken

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location_onMalaysia

Map of the city of Malakka (Malacca/Melaka) and its surroundings, with rivers, hills and a coastal road marked. There is a military fort, presumably the ‘A Famosa [The Famous]’ fort that is noted on the map as having been demolished.

Extension of the Electric Telegraph to Canton, Hong Kong, etc. from the Port of Rangoon

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location_onMyanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam

Map of a proposed extension of a telegraph system from Rangoon (Yangon, Myanmar) to China. Includes current and projected railways, steam ship routes, and population figures for western China. From the British magazine ‘The Illustrated London News’.

Schets van Malakka en omstreken

eventc.1860

location_onMalaysia

Map of the city of Malakka (Malacca/Melaka) and its surroundings, with rivers, hills and a coastal road marked. There is a military fort, presumably the ‘A Famosa [The Famous]’ fort that is noted on the map as having been demolished.

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