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Title: Chart of the world on Mercator's Projection

Contributors:

Dates

  • Coverage: 1863

Publishers

  • Gotha : Justus Perthes, [1863]

Summary

Relief shown by hachures. Includes 8 inset maps and abbreviation table. " ... containing the lines of oceanic mail steam communication and overland routes, the great aerial and submarine telegraphs, and the principal tracks of sailing vessels; showing the direction and mean velocity of oceanic currents and important deep-sea soundings; with 4 additional charts shewing the general currents of air, the cotidal lines and the lines of equal magnitude variation." Wall map.

Subjects

  • World maps
  • Communication—Maps
  • Transportation—Maps
  • Other

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (-180.0, 180.0, 90.0, -90.0)
  • Geometry: BBOX (-180.0, 180.0, 90.0, -90.0)

Provider

Princeton

Rights

  • Access rights: Public

Citation

Berghaus, Hermann, 1828-1890. Chart of the world on Mercator's Projection. Gotha : Justus Perthes, [1863]. Image data. https://maps.princeton.edu/catalog/princeton-g732dc47q

Format

TIFF

Languages

  • eng