File: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. RMG F0392.tiff

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Alexander Dalrymple; W.H.
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English: 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.

G258:6/10 Princes Island, Java
Date 1788
date QS:P571,+1788-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions Printed area 30 x 32cm, on sheet 32 x 34.5cm.
Source/Photographer http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/540342
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Acquisition Number: N76-19, file X75/116.
Admiralty Chart Number: 884
id number: G258:6/10
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N: 6.3968276°S
W: 104.9790589°E E: 105.4483247°E
S: 6.8092417°S
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