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From August Petermann's ‘Geographische Mittheilungen’, this map of New Guinea and neighbouring islands is marked with a maritime route from the western tip of New Guinea that is labelled ‘from Batavia to Hong Kong in 35 days’ and dated 1846.

An early 19th century map of Asia by the English cartographer John Cary (c.1754–1835) with colour-coded regions.