Credit: The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.22063

    Map of the Saint Pierre Island Harbour

    Date
    1764
    Creator
    Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1722, French) , Hydrographer
    Object type
    Library reference
    27356
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 225mm
    width (print): 330mm
    Subject
    Content object
    map
    Description
    Map of the port area of Saint Pierre Island, showing a small number of buildings around a natural harbour on the east coast of the island. A number of smaller islands can also be seen with in the bay.

    Plate 19 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.19.’ With a cartouche lower right: ‘PLAN / DE LA RADE ET PORT / DE L’ISLE ST. PIERRE / Echelle de cinq cent Toises.’

    Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
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