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Melinda chart 1873

Plan of Malindi in Kenya undertaken by George K Gordon (Sub Lieutenant) under Captain George Malcolm, HMS Briton (Royal Navy), 29 April 1873. Annotations indicate that the map is a corrected (i.e. updated) version of earlier Admiralty charts (667 and 1811) from earlier in the 19th century. Malcolm's signature confirms the corrections. Differences include the indication of the area of the modern town (re-founded c.1860), the location of a 'flaggstaff' in the town, the area of the 'Ruins of Ancient City' and what may be the line of ancient fortifications. See also: Map of the coast near Malindi, 1873, used by Gordon to set the wider context for the Malindi chart.

Date
April 29, 1873
Mapmaker / publisher
George K Gordon (Sub Lieutenant)
Place
Kenya
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
chart
Original size
2,874 × 3,121 pixels

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Reason: its maker died more than 70 years ago, and a faithful scan of a flat work adds no new copyright.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-Art (PD-old-70); no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page; permission field: Cite: United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, A 3453/2 Africa folio 3.

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"Melinda chart 1873" (April 29, 1873). George K Gordon (Sub Lieutenant), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Melinda_chart_1873.jpg

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