Cartography of Sri Lanka
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The cartography of Sri Lanka is the history of the surveying and creation of maps of Sri Lanka. A list of maps of Sri Lanka in chronological order is shown below.
Maps
[edit ]| Date | Carto- grapher |
Description | Image |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st century CE | |||
| 1482 | |||
| 1595 | Petrus Plancius | Left–right is north–south. | |
| 1681 | Robert Knox | ||
| 17th century; after 1681 | Nicolaes Visscher II | ||
| 1686 | Alain Manesson Mallet | ||
| 17th century | Robert Morden | ||
| 1789 | |||
| late-19th century | |||
| c. 1914 |
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Small-scale maps
[edit ]| Date | Title | Carto- grapher |
Description | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1815 | Sketch map of Kandy and environ in 1815 | |||
| 1914 | Map of Kandy and environs |
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