A Large Chart Describing The Streights (Straits) Of Malacca …

Type of Item:

MAP

Type of Map:

Hydrographic Chart

Source:

National Maritime Museum, Greenwich; National Maritime Museum (Great Britain)

Accession Number:

HC000812

Title:

A Large Chart Describing The Streights (Straits) Of Malacca And Sincapore (Singapore)

Covering Date:

c.1711

Scope and Content:

Chart by Samuel Thornton who published his pilot, Oriental Navigation, in 1703, in which he describes the passage through Old Strait clearly and calls it "Old Streights of Sincapura". The "Old Strait of Singapore" ran between the Singapore Island and Sentosa to the Keppel Harbour area. On this map, the "Old Streights of Sincapura" is marked on the Singapore Island itself.

Media - Image Number:

20120001557 - 0007

Source Reference Number:

F1219

Language/ Script of material:

English

Other information about copies:

Similar map in HC000723

Publication Notes:

By John Thornton, hydrographer at the signe of England Scotland and Ireland on the Minories, London.
Dates are estimated

Conditions Governing Access:

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