Colombo Harbour, Ceylon Sri Lanka. ADMIRALTY sea chart city plan 1907 (1956) map

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Ceylon - West Coast - Colombo Harbour. Artist/engraver/cartographer: From a survey by Commander Somerville, , assisted by Lieutenants Lay, Hancock, and Harvey, and Mr. Alexander, Boatswain, Surveying Ship "Sealark," 1906 with corrections from Harbour Engineer's Plans to 1952. The topography and details of the town of Colombo from the Ceylon Government Survey. Provenance: London. Published at the Admiralty under the Superintendence of Rear Admiral A. Mostyn Field, , Hydrographer. Crown Copyright reserved. Type: Large British nautical sea chart. Sea charts such as this were working navigational aids which were commonly updated and corrected during their working lives by hand annotation and/or printed overlays. They may also feature manuscript navigational notes, comments or other markings.

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Size: 8247px × 10756px
Location: Sri Lanka
Photo credit: © Antiqua Print Gallery / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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