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Le Détroit de Malacca: dressé sur les memoires des plus savans Voyageurs modernes
c.1700-1799
Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore
This 18th century map was designed to aid navigation through the Strait of Malacca between Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula. Shoals, reefs and islands are marked, and the numbers printed on the strait record sea depth (bathymetry).
Nova tabula insularum Iavae, Sumatrae, Borneonis et aliarum Mallaccam usquae
1598
Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore
Adapted by Theodore de Bry from an original by Willem Lodewycksz, this map has some inaccuracies e.g. the Malay Peninsula (‘Chersonese’) is completely bisected by the Muar River, leaving the southern tip of the peninsula as a separate island.
Exacta & accurata delineatio cùm orarum maritimarum tùm etiam locorum terrestrium quae in regionibus China, Cauchinchina, Camboia sive Champa, Syao, Malacca, Aracan & Pegu
1596
Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Vietnam
Unusually, north is located to the left of this map of East Asia, rather than the top. The text notes that shallows and reefs are marked, and that the map is based on the explorations of Portuguese ships. Illustrations include sea monsters and ships.
- Malacca5
- [remove]Melaka5
- Malay Peninsula4
- Sumatra4
- Borneo2
- Java2
- Strait of Malacca2
- Arracan1
- Borneo Insula1
- Cambaua Insula1
- Camboia sive Champa1
- Cauchinchina1
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- Reef5
- [remove]Shoal5
- Bry, Theodor de1
- Horsburgh, James1
- Leide, A.1
- Linschoten, Jan Huygen van1
- Lodewycksz, Willem1
- McIntosh, Captain Charles Christopher1
- McNair, John Frederick Adolphus1
- Robinson, William Cleaver Francis1
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