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Ned Loe

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Navigating with Google Maps is just no fun.  Here are some glorious period maps of the Caribbean with flavor that makes things a bit more interesting:

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/1732_Herman_Moll_Map_of_the_West_Indies,_Florida,_Mexico,_and_the_Caribbean_-_Geographicus_-_WestIndies-moll-1720.jpg

 

I love all the annotations on this 1720 map, with helpful tips for English sea captains.

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/1818_Pinkerton_Map_of_the_West_Indies,_Antilles,_and_Caribbean_Sea_-_Geographicus_-_WestIndies2-pinkerton-1818.jpg

 

A hundred years later (1818) and you have a more accurate, easier to read map.  (edit: thread merged, already posted above)

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/1799_Clement_Cruttwell_Map_of_West_Indies_-_Geographicus_-_WestIndies-cruttwell-1799.jpg

 

Nice and clear map from 1790, but fewer towns labelled.

 

https://networks.h-net.org/system/files/contributed-files/map-west-indies-and-mexican-gulph_0.jpeg

 

This 1806 map is huge and would be easy to add additional annotations to.

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Lots of beautiful french, english, dutch (...) nautical charts and map : http://gallica.bnf.fr (a french online library)

 

Example : a french 1749 nautical chart of La Martinique (a french Caribbean island) :

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Chart under Gallica's licence (non-commercial uses are free of charge) : http://gallica.bnf.fr/html/conditions-use-gallicas-contents

 

PS : a collection of small-scale nautical charts (one for each Caribbean island like this one) would be great  ;) .

 

PS 2 : to look for charts on this french site, you may need some french words such as : carte nautique, Antilles, XVIII ème siècle and french names of the Islands...

You can also type english words for english items... 

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