Neueste Karte Der Erde Mit Rücksicht auf das Bedürfniss des Handelstandes sowie fur den Unterricht an Lehr-Anstalten.

A vastly complex and enormously proportioned c. 1870 German map of the world by C. F. Baur and Traugott Bromme. Printed in c. 1870 in a multi-toned lithographic process this extraordinary map presents the world on a Mercator Projections. Designed with a educational purposes in mind, Baur manages to incorporate a staggering wealth of informative detail into ever corner of this map. The world is depicted according to the political conventions of the late 19th century. While most of the world had been explored by the late 19th century, this map does offer some interesting speculative land masses in the Arctic including Gillis Land (named after a c. 1707 whaler who supposedly spotted it) and a mysterious land mass to the northwest of the Behring Strait. The Canadian Arctic is remarkable well mapped though the whole region is shows to be locked down in glacial ice. In contrast Antarctic exploration was still in its infancy, though parts of the Antarctic coast line are noted to the south of Australia and off the coast of Tierra del Fuego. Throughout there is an attempt to map currents and wind patterns. Various explorers routes, including Cook, Biscoe, Tasman, Wilkes, Vancouver, the Reso

Date

1870

Place

the world with Mercator projection

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

map

Original size

6,000 × 4,557 pixels

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