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This map focuses on the capital city of British New Guinea, Port Moresby, and the road heading north-east from the city to the Laloki River. Along the road, there are descriptions of the terrain (‘Open flat fairly grasses timbered with bastard Gum’).

British Burma is shown on the right of this two-sheet map of India. The green areas had come under British rule after the first and second Anglo-Burmese wars, with Upper Burma (light brown) being incorporated after the Third Anglo-Burmese War (1885).

This map charts the journey of Holt S. Hallett as he searched for a suitable route for a railway to transport British goods from Burma to Thailand and China. He wrote the book ‘A Thousand Miles on an Elephant in the Shan States’ about his expedition.

Topographic map of the island of Bawean in the Java Sea, with terrain shown by contour lines, and mountains labelled with their heights. Villages, forests (heavy, light, teakwood) and crops (coconut, coffee, alang-alang, rice, bamboo) are marked.

Contour lines show the terrain of these two districts at the western end of the island of Bali. Roads connecting the ‘desa’s [villages]’, Hindu temples and rivers are marked. Anchor points around the coast are marked for ships or for local vessels.

This map of the Atjeh and its surrounding area (modern province of Aceh, Indonesia) is divided into administrative areas. There is an inset map of the capital city Kota Radja (Banda Aceh), and mountains (with their height) and rivers are marked.

Map of Saleijer (Selayar)—an island off the south coast of Celebes (Sulawesi)—and nearby islands. Settlements and roads are shown, including a long road along the west coast which links cities marked with a Dutch flag, illustrating colonial rule.

Map of the South Peninsula of Celebes (Sulawesi), spread over four sheets. It features crops (alang-alang, coffee, rice, sugarcane), fishing ponds, salt panning, routes, mountains, forests and settlements. The Gowa Regency is left blank.

Map of Burma labelled with indigenous peoples (uppercase red text) and products (salt, copper, tea, rubies, coal, rubber, petroleum, marble, jade, silver) of each area. It also marks two journeys by the explorer J. Annan Bryce, and proposed railways.

Map of the district of Longxuyen (Long Xuyên in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam). The city of Long Xuyên is on the southern bank of the Bassac River (labelled ‘Fleuve Postérieur’ and ‘Fleuve Antérieur’), surrounded by rivers, wetlands, fields and villages.

Four-sheet topographic map of the residency of Probolinggo (East Java), with an inset map of distances between locations by rail and road, and a signal map. Crops, fishing ponds, sugar factories, and coffee and salt warehouses are shown.

A map of the watershed of the Bila and Pane rivers in northern Sumatra. In addition to many rivers/tributaries, mountains, roads, paths and administrative borders are marked. Side views of mountains (elevations) are shown to use a landmarks.