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Title: Central & Eastern Africa, 1655 (Raster Image)

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Dates

  • Issued: 2012-04
  • Coverage: 1655

Publishers

  • Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library

Summary

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Haute Ethiopie, ou sont L'Empire des Abissins, La Nubie, et le Zanguebar : subdivises en leurs principales parties, tires de Sanut de Mercator &c. par le Sr. Sanson d'Abbeville. It was published by P. Mariette in 1655. Covers Central and Eastern Africa. Scale [ca. 1:12,000,000]. Map in French.The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Africa Sinusoidal projected coordinate system. All map collar and inset information is also available as part of the raster image, including any inset maps, profiles, statistical tables, directories, text, illustrations, index maps, legends, or other information associated with the principal map. This map shows features such as drainage, cities and other human settlements, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Relief shown pictorially.This layer is part of a selection of digitally scanned and georeferenced historic maps from the Harvard Map Collection. These maps typically portray both natural and manmade features. The selection represents a range of originators, ground condition dates, scales, and map purposes.

Subjects

  • Algeria
  • Angola
  • Botswana
  • Burundi
  • Cameroon
  • Central African Republic
  • Chad
  • Comoros
  • Congo, Democratic Republic of the
  • Congo, Republic of the
  • Djibouti
  • Egypt
  • Equatorial Guinea
  • Eritrea
  • Ethiopia
  • Gabon
  • Kenya
  • Libya
  • Madagascar
  • Malawi
  • Mayotte
  • Mozambique
  • Namibia
  • Niger
  • Nigeria
  • Rwanda
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Seychelles
  • Somalia
  • South Sudan
  • Sudan
  • Tanzania
  • Uganda
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Yemen
  • Zambia
  • Zimbabwe
  • Africa, Central
  • Africa, Eastern
  • Maps
  • Human settlements
  • Cities and towns
  • Villages
  • Landforms
  • Bodies of water
  • imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-3.912897, 78.467094, 27.88438, -25.030593)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-3.912897, 78.467094, 27.88438, -25.030593)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library, Sanson, Nicolas, 1600-1667. Central & Eastern Africa, 1655 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard College Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g8330-1655-s3

Format

GeoTIFF