Padang - the chief settlement of the Dutch Company on the west coast of Sumatra

Single sheet. Engr. Scale: [ca. 1:25 000]. Cartographic Note: Ungraduated. Scale in nautic miles. Soundings. Additional Places: Karimata Islands. Contents Note: Fortifications, settlements and vegetation shown. Key to locations. Detailed plan of fort with key to internal layout, Inset view of Poolo Chinco by Charles Christie, List of the English ships, with their commanders, of 'the squadron to which this place surrendered on 19 August 1781.'.
From an atlas published ca. 1842.

Object Details

ID: G258:11/27
Collection: Charts and maps
Type: Chart
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Dalrymple, Alexander; Dalrymple, Alexander Harmar, T.
Places: Kepulauan Karimata; Sumatra
Date made: 1782
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Printed area 28.5 x 28.5cm, on sheet 30.5 x 31cm.