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Title: Mediterranean Sea, 1694 (Raster Image)

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Dates

  • Issued: 2013-11
  • Coverage: 1694

Publishers

  • Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library

Summary

This layer is a georeferenced raster image of the historic paper map entitled: Carte nouvelle de la mer Mediterranéeoù sont exactement remarqués tous les ports, golfes, rochers, bancs de sable &c. : a l'usage des Armées du Roy de la Grande Bretagne / dressé sur les mémoires les plus nouveaux par Romain de Hooge. It was published by chez Pierre Mortier, avec Privilége in 1694. Scale [ca. 1:4,875,000]. Map in French. The image inside the map neatline is georeferenced to the surface of the earth and fit to the Europe Lambert Conformal Conic 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. Includes also decorative cartouche, rhumb lines, illustrations of naval battles, and 38 insets showing city and coast views, views, ports, harbors. 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

  • Boundaries
  • Transportation
  • Mediterranean Sea
  • Europe
  • North Africa
  • Maps
  • Human settlements
  • Cities and towns
  • Villages
  • Landforms
  • Bodies of water
  • Land use
  • Infrastructure (Economics)
  • imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
  • Datasets

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-33.93791, 55.472274, 51.311555, 22.875793)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-33.93791, 55.472274, 51.311555, 22.875793)

Provider

Harvard

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library, Hooghe, Romeyn de, 1645-1708. Mediterranean Sea, 1694 (Raster Image). Harvard Map Collection, Harvard Library. Raster data. https://hgl.harvard.edu/catalog/harvard-g5672-m4-1694-h6

Format

GeoTIFF