Map of the Lucayan Archipelago
Date
1764
Creator
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1772, French) , Hydrographer
Object type
Library reference
27356
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 230mm
width (print): 375mm
width (print): 375mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Map showing the southern part of the Lucayan Archipelago, including the Turks and Caicos Islands and parts of the Bahamas. Inagua Island and Little Inagua Island can be seen towards the southwest, with the Turks and Caicos Islands to the east and the Bahamian islands of Acklins and Crooked Island towards the northwest.
Plate 62 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.62.’ With a cartouche top right: ‘CARTE DES ISLES SITUÉES / AU NORD DE ST DOMINGUE / Aves les Passages pour le retour appellés / Debouquemens / Echelle de Quinze Lieues Communes’. The framing scale is in French nautical leagues west of the Paris meridian.
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
Plate 62 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.62.’ With a cartouche top right: ‘CARTE DES ISLES SITUÉES / AU NORD DE ST DOMINGUE / Aves les Passages pour le retour appellés / Debouquemens / Echelle de Quinze Lieues Communes’. The framing scale is in French nautical leagues 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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