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Vasco da Gama Pillar Melinda chart 1873
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Vasco da Gama Pillar Melinda chart 1873

Detail from Plan of Malindi in Kenya undertaken by George K Gordon (Sub Lieutenant) under Captain George Malcolm, HMS Briton (Royal Navy), 29 April 1873. The map was a corrected (i.e. updated) version of earlier Admiralty charts (667 and 1811) from earlier in the 19th century. The headland and the pillar appear to have been drawn afresh, rather than being simply copied from the earlier maps.

Date
April 29, 1873
Mapmaker / publisher
George K Gordon (Sub Lieutenant)
Place
Africa
Archive
Wikimedia Commons
Type
chart
Original size
1,968 × 1,490 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: United Kingdom Hydrographic Office, A 3453/2 Africa folio 3.

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"Vasco da Gama Pillar Melinda chart 1873" (April 29, 1873). George K Gordon (Sub Lieutenant), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vasco_da_Gama_Pillar_Melinda_chart_1873.jpg

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