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Bound sheet. Engr. Scale: [ca. 1:5 000 000 (bar)]. Cartographic Note: North at 42 degrees. Borders obliquely graduated for latitude. Bar scales in Dutch and Spanish miles, English and French miles [actually leagues]. Additional Places: Norwegian Sea, Barents Sea. Contents Note: Shows part of the east Greenland coast, discovered by Gaal Hamkes in 1654. Contains an inset of Jan Mayen Island showing anchorages and a view of the mountain.
A chart bound in Jacob Colom's 'Atlas of werelts-water-deel en des selfs zee-custen', 1663.

Object Details

ID: PBD8028(4)
Type: Chart
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Colom, Arnold; Colom, Jacob Aertsz
Places: Norwegian Sea; Barents Sea
Date made: 1656
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements: Printed area 55.5 x 64cm, on sheet 57.5 x 65cm.