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Jacques-Nicolas Bellin: Plan du Port du Carenage ou Petit Cul de Sac de L’Isle St. Lucie.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Jacques-Nicolas Bellin  (1703–1772)  wikidata:Q607846 s:fr:Auteur:Jacques-Nicolas Bellin
 
Alternative names
Jacques Nicolas, Sieur Bellin; Jacques Nicolas Bellin; Nicolas Bellin
Description French cartographer, encyclopédistes, geographer and hydrographer
Date of birth/death 1703 Edit this at Wikidata 21 March 1772 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Versailles
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artist QS:P170,Q607846
Title
Plan du Port du Carenage ou Petit Cul de Sac de L’Isle St. Lucie.
Description
English: This beautiful little map depicts the Port du Carenage (today Castries) on the West Indies island of St. Lucia or St. Lucie. Depicts the small bay with numerous depth soundings and information on anchorage for both large and small ships. Also shows some inland features including roads, a small pre-Columbian ruin, and habitations. There is a compass rose decorated with a fleur-de-lys and radiating rhumb lines. This map was published in 1764 for Bellin’s Le Petit Atlas Maritime.
Date 1764
date QS:P571,+1764-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions height: 7 in (17.7 cm); width: 9 in (22.8 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,7U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,9U218593
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Geographicus link: PortCarenage-bellin-1764
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