![]() ![]() ![]() His craftsmanship and commitment to accuracy earned him a distinguished reputation as one of the world's leading cartographers, and many other European mapmakers turned to him for source material. Longitude from the Ferro Meridian.Īppointed hydrographer of the French Navy at the age of eighteen, Bellin eventually became Hydrographer to the King in 1741. He published numerous sea atlases and charts which would be reprinted into the nineteenth century, as well as many maps depicting French colonial territories in the New World. Published by French hydrographer and geographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), who produced a prodigious body of work over a nearly fifty-year career. The country lies between the Indian and the Pacific Oceans and consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of New Guinea. Along the trench (lower left), the Australia plate is moving underneath. It is bordered by Borneo (Kalimantan) on the north, the southern end of Makassar Strait on the northeast, Celebes and the Flores and Bali seas on the east, Java on the south, the Sunda Straits to the Indian Ocean on the southwest, Sumatra on the west, and the islands of Bangka and Belitung (bordering the South China Sea) on the northwest. The location of the plate boundary is marked by the Sunda Trench, a narrow band of very deep water that parallels the Sumatran coast. ![]() Map of present-day Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and the Philippines. The map reveals typical features of a subduction zone: an oceanic trench, a fore-arc ridge, a fore-arc basin, and an island arc. "Map of the Islands Of Java, Sumatra, Borneo &a. Les D étroits de la Sonde Malaca et Banca Golphe de Siam &a. Condition: Very Good Plus - light age toning, issued center fold, light foxingĬarte Des Isles de Java, Sumatra, Borneo &a.Title: Carte Des Isles de Java, Sumatra, Borneo &c. ![]()
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