Map of the Strait of Belle Isle
Date
1764
Creator
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1722, French) , Hydrographer
Object type
Library reference
27356
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 215mm
width (print): 160mm
width (print): 160mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Map showing the Strait of Belle Isle between the island of Newfoundland and the Labrador Peninsula. Belle Isle is shown between the two larger landmasses at the eastern side of the map. By the mid-eighteenth century these areas were still unsettled by Europeans and the map notes that Labrador is mostly unexplored and home to indigenous Inuit communities.
Plate 14 from Le petit atlas maritime: recueil de cartes et plans des quatre parties du monde; en cinq volumes ... vol.1, by Jacques-Nicholas Bellin (Paris, Ministere de la Marine, 1764).
Inscribed top right: ‘Tome I. No.14.’ With a cartouche upper left: ‘LE DÉTROIT DE / BELLE-ISLE / Echelle de Lieues Communes’. The framing scale is in French nautical leagues, showing the longitude west of the Paris meridian.
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
Plate 14 from Le petit atlas maritime: recueil de cartes et plans des quatre parties du monde; en cinq volumes ... vol.1, by Jacques-Nicholas Bellin (Paris, Ministere de la Marine, 1764).
Inscribed top right: ‘Tome I. No.14.’ With a cartouche upper left: ‘LE DÉTROIT DE / BELLE-ISLE / Echelle de Lieues Communes’. The framing scale is in French nautical leagues, showing the longitude west of the Paris meridian.
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
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