Map of Africa. 19th-century map of the continent of Africa,published in 1862 by US cartographer Alvin Jewett Johnson (1827-1884). Explorers named on the map include Lander,Denham and Clapperton,Park,Caillie,Allen and Oldfield,D'Arnaud and Sabatier,and Mahamet Ali (Muhammad Ali of Egypt). Routes of navigators named on the oceans are: James Cook,Vasco da Gama,George Vancouver,Samuel Wallis,John Byron,and Philip Carteret. The insets across bottom show (left to right): the island of Saint Helena,Cape Town and Table Mountain,and Port Natal. Map published in 'Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas' (New York,1862) |