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Map of the British Empire, 1940
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Map of the British Empire, 1940

Map of the British Empire taken from The Illustrated London News, 28th September 1940. As well as showing the regions of the world considered part of the British Empire, this map also shows the positions of 1,545 British ships at sea in a single day.

Date
September 28, 1940
Mapmaker / publisher
The Illustrated London News
Place
the British Empire
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
map
Original size
12,384 × 7,904 pixels

Public domain

Reason: public domain: scan (PD-UKGov).

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

Credit line

"Map of the British Empire, 1940" (September 28, 1940). The Illustrated London News, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_the_British_Empire,_1940.jpg

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