Plan of Po. Pontangh or Princes Island and adjacent coast of Java from a Dutch ms. in the collection of the Hon. Tho. Howe: decd.

Single sheet, engraving. Scale [circa 1:200,000]. Bar scale in nautic miles. This is an ungraduated chart of Panaitan, Sunda Strait, Indonesia. The chart contains 2 views: 1) View of Princes Island, John Michel Aubert 1752; 2) View of the waterfall on Java near Mew Bay, J.M. Aubert 1752. A note under the title says that the soundings in Casuaris Bay were added from another Dutch manuscript.

This chart was reissued under the Hydrographical Office imprint in an atlas published in about 1842.

Object Details

ID: G258:6/10
Collection: Charts and maps
Type: Chart
Display location: Not on display
Creator: H., W.; Dalrymple, Alexander
Places: Sunda Strait; Pulau Panaitan Gunung Gede
Date made: 1788
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Printed area 30 x 32cm, on sheet 32 x 34.5cm.
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