Map of the Annapolis Basin
Date
1764
Creator
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1722, French) , Hydrographer
Object type
Library reference
27356
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 205mm
width (print): 335mm
width (print): 335mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Map showing the location the Acadian settlement of Port-Royal, later renamed by the British to Annapolis Royal, after Queen Anne. The settlement is located within the Annapolis Basin on the northwest coast of Nova Scotia.
Plate 27 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.27.’ With a cartouche lower right: ‘PLAN DU / PORT ROYAL / dans l’Acadie, / Appellé Aujourd’. par les Anglois / ANNAPOLIS ROYAL / Echelle d’Une Lieue commune.’
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
Plate 27 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.27.’ With a cartouche lower right: ‘PLAN DU / PORT ROYAL / dans l’Acadie, / Appellé Aujourd’. par les Anglois / ANNAPOLIS ROYAL / Echelle d’Une Lieue commune.’
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
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