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1.3. Netherlands - Antilles<br />

1.3.1. There were maps of these islands at a very early data, most of them however<br />

only in outline.<br />

First, six synoptical maps of the Netherland Antilles will be brought in the<br />

spotlight, after which some specific maps of the islands will be separately<br />

discussed.<br />

a. Thirteen maps of Cura~ao, the oldest by Johannes de Laet (1644) and<br />

two from the Sevilla-archives (1734) will be reviewed.<br />

Also geological-, topographical- and photogrammetrically composed<br />

maps are mentioned.<br />

b. Besides the topographical map-series of Aruba, maily the maps concerning<br />

the gold-exploration on this island are discussed.<br />

c. Of Bonaire we discuss the map, which served for the auction of landparcels<br />

on the first of September 1868 along with the topographical<br />

map and a geological map from 1887.<br />

d. The oldest known map of St. Maarten (Martin) is the one compiled by<br />

Gerard Hulst van Keulen (1791); much earlier (1495) Juan de la Cose<br />

made a map on which this island appeared.<br />

Futhermore we mention the topographical map of Samuel Fahlberg<br />

(1791) State-Surveyor for both the Dutch and French part of the island,<br />

some maps and sketches of the saltines, the topographical map of<br />

around 1912 and the 1950 geological map.<br />

e. On the Turinean map (ca. 1523) we find St. Eustace and Saba: the latter<br />

otherwise being treated stepmotherly by the cartographers.<br />

Of St. Eustace there are among others a map of Reinier Ottens (1775)<br />

one of the Samual Fahlberg (1830) and a topographical map of around<br />

1912. Although no map of Saba was known in the Netherlands, there<br />

proved to be a printed map of this island on St. Thomas, designed by<br />

the administrator of Saba Mr. Statius van Eps (1883).<br />

There is no topographical map of Saba and the first geological map was<br />

compiled in 1958. During the fifties of our century the U.S. made an<br />

aerial survey of this island, while K.L.M. aerocarto produced a contourmap<br />

of Saba in 1959.<br />

1.4. Berbice, Essequibo and Demerary<br />

1.4.1. The map collection for the Venezuela-British Gyana Boundary Arbitration<br />

(1897) contains many maps of Guyana including eleven historical maps,<br />

illustrating the European possessions between 1597 and 1803 (1814).<br />

Between the regional maps of this area there is a manuscript map of A.<br />

Maas (1706), a map of Storm van 'S-Gravesande (1748) and one of J.C. He-<br />

neman (1773-1775).<br />

Furthermore there are many maps dating from the 18th, 19th and 20th cen-<br />

tury, from which some are discussed.<br />

1.5. French-Guiana (Cayenne)<br />

1.51 Charts and maps.<br />

Plantation maps as known of Suriname and (British Guiana) now Guyana,<br />

are not existant in French Guyana; their charts however are similar to tho-<br />

se of our country.<br />

Several charts from the 17th, 18th and 19th century are mentioned while<br />

some 14 maps, among which, that of du Val dlAbbeville (1654), Buache-<br />

Mentelle and Poirson between 1802 and 1821 along with that of Van Pan-<br />

huys (1908) are discussed.

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