Handsome large-format fold-out 1941 color lithographed map of the Indian Ocean, Australia, New Zealand, and Malaysia, printed more than 82 years ago.

• This map opens to a generous 64.6 x 83.2 cm [25½" x 32¾"] and is drawn on a scale of 1:20,000,000, or 316 miles to one inch.



• The coverage area extends from Cairo to Capetown, east to Tokyo and Tasmania.



• Topography is delineated by color shading, and details include oil fields, railways, canals, naval bases, steamship routes, cities, towns, notes on explorers and discoveries, ocean currents, and the northern limit of drift ice.



• There are insets of Guam, Singapore, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and New Zealand.



• Among the other named places on the map are French Indo-China, Netherlands Indies, Belgian Congo, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Italian East Africa, British Somaliland, Aden Protectorate, Northern Rhodesia, Burma, Ceylon, Canton, Batavia, Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, Nanking, Taiwan (Formosa), Madagascar, and many more.



• Condition:  This map is in excellent condition, bright and clean, with no marks, rips, or tears. It is blank on the back, with no printing on the reverse side. Please see the scans and feel free to ask any questions.



• This map was publshed by the National Geographic Society as a supplement to its May 1941 magazine. It folds to 8¼" x 6¼".



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