Find Any Map
Plan du Cap de Bonne-Esperance et de ses Environs.
Download full sizeView at the archive

Plan du Cap de Bonne-Esperance et de ses Environs.

This is a very attractive 1752 nautical chart of the Cape of Good Hope and Cape Town region of South Africa. This maritime map covers from False Bay past the Cape of Good Hope northwards past Cape Town and Isle Robben as far as Saldanha Bay. Offers numerous rhumb lines, depth soundings, and some inland topographic detail. The most detailed sounding focus on the dangers seas around Isle Robben, at the time a notorious prison. Just south of the fort that would eventually evolve into Cape Town, Table Mountain is clearly rendered in profile. Engraved by De La Haye for Jean-Baptiste d'Après de Mannevillette’s 1775 Neptune Oriental.

Date
1752–1775
Place
Africa
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
chart
Original size
3,500 × 4,967 pixels

Public domainsafest

Reason: its maker died more than 100 years ago, and a faithful scan of a flat work adds no new copyright.

Read from: Commons licence category: PD-Art (PD-old-100); no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.

Credit line

"Plan du Cap de Bonne-Esperance et de ses Environs." (1752–1775). Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1775_Mannevillette_Map_of_the_Cape_of_Good_Hope,_South_Africa_-_Geographicus_-_BonneEsperance-mannevillette-1752.jpg

What public domain means here

Need maps for a whole project? Add Find Any Map to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 236016.

More like this