Pacific Islands Western Pacific

Compiled in 1944 by the Naval Intelligence Division, the maps from the Western Pacific volume of Pacific Islands chart islan...

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Compiled in 1944 by the Naval Intelligence Division, the maps from the Western Pacific volume of Pacific Islands chart island coasts and terrain for a wartime purpose, where beaches, relief and rock could decide movement and access. The sheets range across Fiji, Micronesia, New Caledonia and New Guinea, with coastal mapping around Viti Levu and the Comboui–Nouméa area alongside physical and geological studies of Babelthuap and parts of New Guinea. They belong to the division's Geographical Handbook Series, which gathered knowledge of areas of military and strategic concern, so this is intelligence mapping rather than a civilian atlas.

Compiled in 1944 by the Naval Intelligence Division, the maps from the Western Pacific volume of Pacific Islands chart island coasts and terrain for a wartime purpose, where beaches, relief and rock could decide movement and access. The sheets range across Fiji, Micronesia, New Caledonia and New Guinea, with coastal mapping around Viti Levu and the Comboui–Nouméa area alongside physical and geological studies of Babelthuap and parts of New Guinea. They belong to the division's Geographical Handbook Series, which gathered knowledge of areas of military and strategic concern, so this is intelligence mapping rather than a civilian atlas.

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