Detail View: Old Maps Collection: [Carte côtes de la Chine]

Barcode: 
4687820501195
Title: 
[Carte côtes de la Chine]
Category: 
General Maps
Type: 
Manuscripts
Language: 
French
Create Year: 
[17--]
Format: 
JPEG 2000, 11277 × 7526, 14.7MB
Scale: 
Scale not given.
Physical Map Dimension (cm): 
65 x 98 cm, on sheet 79 x 112 cm
Note: 
This is a sea chart of the East China Sea with the depths of the water-body in soundings. It depicts the coast of China, half of the Hainan Island, Taiwan, Korea and west side of Japan. The unknown author kept some degree of detail on land if it was important for navigation orientation. On the Hainan Island we can see the Portuguese word 'cidade' written, meaning there is a city at that place. Still in Hainan there is a 'Tour Blanche' that most probably is the Doubing Pagoda -斗柄塔- built in 1625 as a tower for navigation due to many shipwrecks although superstitious locals believed that these were actually caused by demons haunting the area. On the Leizhou Peninsula there is another tower named 'Haute Tour' which may refer to Dengyunta -登云塔- built in 1623, with 36.4 m can be seen from the sea.
Note: 
Original is a manuscript map, 92 x 122 cm.
Note: 
Bathymetric relief given by soundings.
Note: 
Map with graticule.
Note: 
Latitude on both sides of the map.
Note: 
Macao in China maps.
Subject: 
Waterways
Subject: 
Coasts
Geographic Area: 
China
Geographic Area: 
East China Sea
Geographic Area: 
Hainan Sheng (China)
Geographic Area: 
Taiwan
Geographic Area: 
Japan
Geographic Area: 
Korea
Provenance: 
Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Provenance Call No.: 
GE SH 18 PF 181 P 12 D Carte côtes de la Chine
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