Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.22058

    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
    Subject
    Content object
    map
    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.
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