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Carte de la Baye de la Table et Rade eu Cap de Bonne Experance.
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Carte de la Baye de la Table et Rade eu Cap de Bonne Experance.

This hand colored map is a c. 1764 map of the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Town, South Africa. Attributed to French cartographer Jacques-Nicholas Bellin, this map was issued for the French edition of Provost’s Histoire des Voyages…. Beautifully rendered mountains and villages show the area in considerable detail. Shows the “Village of the Hottentots”, Blue Mountain, Cow Mountain, Table Mountain, The City of Cape Town itself, Tigerbergen, and many other features. Some oceanic depths are indicated. Of interest is also the Isle of Robben, located centrally on the map. Long a place of exile and punishment, this island prison had a reputation for brutality and cruelty. Today a museum honors the site of so much suffering.

Date
1764
Place
South Africa
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
2,100 × 2,576 pixels

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Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago, and a faithful scan of a flat work adds no new copyright.

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

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"Carte de la Baye de la Table et Rade eu Cap de Bonne Experance." (1764). Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1764_Bellin_Map_of_Cape_Town_(Cape_of_Good_Hope)_-_Geographicus_-_GoodHope3-bellin-1763.jpg

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