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

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Date Carto-
grapher
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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

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

References

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