Cartography of Sri Lanka

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

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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  

Small-scale maps edit

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Date Title Carto-
grapher
Description Image
1815 Sketch map of Kandy and environ in 1815  
1914 Map of Kandy and environs  

References edit