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Title: Carte de la Baye de Trinquemale.

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Dates

  • Coverage: 1760
  • Coverage: 1760 to 1760

Summary

Cartographic Details: Scale not given. (E 81°08'34"--E 81°20'01"/N 8°40'38"--N 8°27'09"). Nautical chart showing fortifications, bays, and islands within Trincomalee Bay. Relief shown by hachures and landforms. Depths shown by soundings. Oriented with north to the lower right. Likely extracted from Abbeá Prevost's L'Histoire generale des voyages."Suppl. au Tome VIII Number 7"--Lower left margin. Includes illustrations. In French.

26 x 36 centimeters

Scale not given.

Ames Library of South Asia Maps

Subjects

  • Trincomalee (Sri Lanka) Maps Early Works to 1800
  • Early Maps
  • Nautical Charts
  • 2022-creator-sprint
  • Sri Lanka
  • Maps

Geospatial coordinates

  • Bounding Box: BBOX (81.130,81.330,8.660,8.450)

Provider

University of Minnesota

Rights

  • Access rights: Public
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Citation

Preávost, abbeá, 1697-1763. Carte de la Baye de Trinquemale.. Nautical charts. https://umedia.lib.umn.edu/item/p16022coll246:318

Format

JPEG

Languages

  • fre