Title: Bay of All Saints, Bahia, Brazil, ca. 1710 (Raster Image)
- Raster data
- 2013
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Harvard)
Dates
- Issued: 2013-11
- Coverage: 1710
Publishers
- Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library
Summary
This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Sinus omnium sanctoru[m]. It was published by the workshop of P. Mortier ca. 1710. Scale not given. Map in Latin, Portuguese, and Dutch. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the SAD 69 / Brazil Polyconic 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, terrestrial navigation routes, territorial boundaries, shoreline features, and more. Depths shown by soundings. Includes also smoke stacks at sugar mills, and inset of Salvador: Civitas S. Salvatoris. 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
- Transportation
- Brazil
- Bahia
- Bay of All Saints
- Maps
- Human settlements
- Cities and towns
- Villages
- Landforms
- Bodies of water
- Land use
- Infrastructure (Economics)
- imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
- Datasets
Geospatial coordinates
- Bounding Box: BBOX (-39.181425, -38.333874, -12.475826, -13.234648)
- Geometry: BBOX (-39.181425, -38.333874, -12.475826, -13.234648)
Provider
Harvard
Rights
- Access rights: Public
Citation
Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library, Mortier, Pierre. Bay of All Saints, Bahia, Brazil, ca. 1710 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g5562-a4-1710-m6
Format
GeoTIFF