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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]’.)

Kaart van Amboina en eenige aangrenzende eilanden

event1854

location_onIndonesia

Map of Amboina (Ambon) and surrounding islands just south of Ceram (Seram). An elevation (side view) of the islands shows the heights of their mountains. (From ‘Algemeene Atlas van Nederlandsche Indie [General Atlas of the Dutch East Indies]’.)

Laphao

event1780

location_onEast Timor, Indonesia

A page from Abbé Prévost’s ‘Histoire Générale des Voyages’. The top map shows the Bay of Laphao on Timor, while the other drawings are side views (or ‘elevations’) of mountains on the region’s islands to use as landmarks when navigating.

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