Panama & Nicaragua showing proposed canal & railway routes—Swanston 1856 map
£115
SKU: P-6-112145
'Central America, Shewing the Proposed Junctions of the Atlantic & Pacific Oceans'
An unusually purposeful map of the mid-nineteenth-century contest to connect the Atlantic and Pacific before the Panama Canal. The upper panel—archaically captioned “Guatimala” but centred on Nicaragua and Costa Rica—plots rival canal routes through the San Juan River and Lake Nicaragua to Realejo or San Juan del Sur, with comparative lengths tabulated. The lower panel traces the proposed Panama railway from Navy Bay and the future Aspinwall (now Colón), along the Chagres corridor and across the continental divide to Panama City. Although the railway was completed in January 1855, the plate preserves it in planning-stage form. Driven by California Gold Rush traffic, it became the first rail connection between the Atlantic and Pacific and later proved indispensable to building the Panama Canal. A small map with unusually rich transport, engineering and geopolitical content.
Size 25 x 16 cm | 9.5 x 6.0 inches
Date Published: 1856
Type: Thematic transport and canal-route map
Author: Swanston, George Heriot
Publication: Fullarton’s Gazetteer of the World
Condition: Good |
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