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18th-century Maldives map by Pierre Mortier
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18th-century Maldives map by Pierre Mortier

This detail from an 18th-century map by Pierre Mortier of The Netherlands names several dozen of the Maldive Islands off the southwestern coast of India. Map title: Carte particuliere d'une partie d'Asie ou sont les Isles d'Andemaon, Ceylan, les Maldives: dressé sur les memoires le plus nouveaux.

Date
c. 1700
Mapmaker / publisher
Pierre Mortier of The Netherlands
Place
the Indian Ocean
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
920 × 617 pixels

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Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-old-100-expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

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"18th-century Maldives map by Pierre Mortier" (c. 1700). Pierre Mortier of The Netherlands, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:18th-century_Maldives_map_by_Pierre_Mortier.jpg

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