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Dom João de Castro - Roteiro do Mar Roxo - Bab-El-Mandeb
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Dom João de Castro - Roteiro do Mar Roxo - Bab-El-Mandeb

16th century drawing of the Bab-El-Mandeb drawn by the Portuguese nobleman Dom João de Castro, entitled Távoa das Portas do Estreito or "Plate of the Gates of the Strait". Made as part of the Roteiro do Mar Roxo, which included navigational, geographical and hydrographical information about the coasts of Arabia and the Red Sea, then known as the Purple Sea - Mar Roxo.

Date
1541
Mapmaker / publisher
Dom João de Castro
Place
the Red Sea
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
1,571 × 1,184 pixels

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