British Guiana/Guyana per Schomburgk—Venezuela/Brazil claims—Petermann 1856 map
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'British Guiana, According to Sir Robert Schomburgk'
Drawn by Augustus Petermann from Sir Robert Schomburgk’s surveys and engraved by G. H. Swanston, this unusually informative map is as much a record of competing territorial claims as of physical geography. Its key explicitly distinguishes boundary lines claimed by Venezuela and Brazil, while the map as a whole follows Schomburgk’s British survey of the colony. From the Orinoco delta to the Amazon watershed, the Essequibo, Demerara, Berbice, Corentyne and their tributaries structure a densely annotated interior of settlements, missions, rapids, cataracts and measured heights. Indigenous peoples are named in capitals, as the key explains, and a cross marks the place where, according to the map, Schomburgk discovered the giant waterlily Victoria regia on 1 January 1837. Published while the frontiers remained unsettled, the sheet combines imperial surveying, natural history and Indigenous geography and foreshadows the boundary controversies that later shaped British Guiana.
Size 25 x 16 cm | 9.5 x 6.0 inches
Date Published: 1856
Type: Antique steel-engraved colonial map with original outline colour
Author: Schomburgk, Robert
Publication: Fullarton’s Gazetteer of the World
Condition: Good |
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