Map of Asia
Asia. A mistake has been made in colouring the chart: the green line running along the African coastline has been extended across the Mediterranean. The shape and location of Alaska is wrong
- Date
- c. 1705
- Mapmaker / publisher
- A. d' Winter (engraver / etcher), Nicolas Sanson d'Abbeville (land surveyor / mapmaker), François Halma (publisher)
- Place
- Asia
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- atlas page
- Original size
- 2,400 × 1,665 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago, and a faithful scan of a flat work adds no new copyright.
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