Might be of interest. Apols if people already know about the
website.
Roger Fern.
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Macau: A Selection of Cartographic Images
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/macau/macau.html
On December 20, 1999, the city of Macau, which for four centuries had
been a Portuguese settlement, was returned to the People's Republic of
China. The entire administrative region is one-tenth the size of
Washington, D.C., and has a population of approximately 460,000. In
order to provide scholars and other interested parties with a
selection of maps and visual ephemera related to the area's history
and development, the American Memory Project at the Library of
Congress developed this fine online collection. The entire online
collection consists of 16 maps, ranging from a 1655 Dutch map of the
coastline around Macau to a 1991 map that shows the three areas that
constitute the Territory of Macau produced by the Portuguese
cartographic service. One gem in the collection is the map depicting
Macau that was taken from the British Buccaneer Atlas of 1696 that was
prepared and used by the infamous pirate Bartholomew Sharpe. [KMG]
>From The Scout Report, 13.6.2003, Copyright Internet Scout Project
1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/
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Roger Fern, Newcastle upon Tyne.
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