Historic Map : Bonne Map of Southern India, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), The Maldives, and The Indian Ocean, 1770, Vintage Wall Art Size:24in x 18in 29 in Jean Lattre's 1776

29 in Jean Lattre's 1776 issue of the Atlas Moderne

he sailed for three days looking for Juan de Gama land but never found it

Southern Africa

and Cape Hattaras are noted and a number of anchorages

Historic Map : Bonne Map of Southern India, Sri Lanka (Ceylon), The Maldives, and The Indian Ocean, 1770, Vintage Wall Art Size:24in x 18in 29 in Jean Lattre's 1776A beautiful example of Rigobert Bonne's 1770 decorative map of southern India. Covers both the Malabar and Coromandel coasts as well as the Maldives, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), the Andaman Islands, and parts of Sumatra and Southeast Asia. Rhumb lines throughout. Arrows in the Indian Ocean show the direction of prevailing winds during the dry season and the monsoon season. This important Indian Ocean wind system, which blew one way for half the year, and the