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location_onBrunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Vietnam

This map features a rhumbline network, a web of lines to help plot routes and aid navigation. Where the lines meet, there is a compass rose with an arrow pointing to north.

Particular-see-charte der Strass Sunda, nebst denen darinnen befindlichen insulen und sandbäncken

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location_onIndonesia

A navigation map of part of the north coast of Java, featuring the ports of Batavia (Jakarta) and Bantam (Serang). Includes colourful paintings of a ‘menschen fressers [cannibal]’ island, Javanese people and palm trees (dates, banana, coconut).

A map of the dominions of Johore and of the island of Sumatra with the adjacent islands

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location_onIndonesia, Malaysia, Singapore

A simple mid-18th century map featuring Sumatra and Johore (Peninsula Malaysia), and many small islands including Singapore. The only details are the names of the islands and some larger settlements.

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