Map of Marigot Bay, Saint Lucia
Date
1764
Creator
Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 - 1772, French) , Hydrographer
Object type
Library reference
27356
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 220mm
width (print): 165mm
width (print): 165mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Map of Marigot Bay on the western coast of the island country of Saint Lucia, one of the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea. The depth of the water in the bay is numerically labelled with four small houses marked as ‘Habitations’.
Plate 97 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.97.’ With a cartouche upper left: ‘PLAN / DU CUL DE SAC / DES ROSEAUX / dans l’Isle de Ste. Lucie. / Echelle de Quatre Vingt Toises. / 1763’
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
Plate 97 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.97.’ With a cartouche upper left: ‘PLAN / DU CUL DE SAC / DES ROSEAUX / dans l’Isle de Ste. Lucie. / Echelle de Quatre Vingt Toises. / 1763’
Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), French hydrographer, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1753.
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