Map of Africa showing Portuguese, Spanish, French, British, Dutch and Danish colonial interests. Shows portions of the eastern coastlines of North America and Brazil, and islands in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans including the Canary Islands, St. Helena, Madagascar, Mauritius and the Seychelles. Relief shown by shading. Prime meridian: Island de Fer. Coordinates approximate and based on Greenwich meridian. 2 inset maps: Die Südspitze von Afrika [showing the routes taken by travellers Lichtenstein and Campbell] -- Die Capstadt und Umgegend. Key in lower left. Index in lower right. "Neue Ausgabe No LI. Stieler's Hand-Atlas (No. 40.)". 3 bar scales on map, given in "Geogr. Meil.," "See Meilen," and "Engl. See M."
Image courtesy University of Cape Town Libraries, Special Collections: Maps scanned under the William and Yvonne Jacobson Digital Africana Program at UCT. If you have questions, please contact David Rumsey Map Center at rumseymapcenter@stanford.edu.
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