Polar & expedition maps

Sea-survey atlas from the Belgica expedition

Historical record

Lecointe’s map appendix documents expedition navigation and coastlines.

What this record establishes

Institutional record documented; does not authenticate interpretations.

Record details

Original title
Belgica hydrographic atlas
Artifact date
1903/1905; edition date unresolved
Holding institution
KU Leuven Libraries, 2Bergen Campus Arenberg
Belgica hydrographic atlas: 1903 map-appendix cover

Atlas title page · maps not reproduced. This independently scanned title page explicitly reads 1903. The KU Leuven exhibit heading says 1905 while its plate citations say 1903; without full comparison this is not a correction to the KU Leuven physical edition. Its canonical 1903/1905 date conflict remains unresolved.

Georges Lecointe, Travaux hydrographiques et instructions nautiques — Cartes, Expédition antarctique belge, Anvers: J.-E. Buschmann, 1903. Independent scan from the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), PDF 155443. Physical holding collection of this copy not independently established. KU Leuven IE 8979248 is the separately preserved documentary reference, not the source of these pixels.

All seven cartographic plates remain held for unresolved additional contributor rights. Only the title page is reproduced; map plates are not included because contributor rights remain unresolved. Original source scan has archival stamps/handwriting; these are retained without interpreting ownership or location beyond documented VLIZ provenance. The catalogued 1903/1905 date remains unresolved. Independent VLIZ volume contains seven numbered map plates, in scan order V, III, VI, VII, II, I, IV, after this cover. Same atlas work; physical-copy/edition identity with KU Leuven has not been independently proven.

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Plain 1903 printed title page only: independent public-domain expiry assessment for Lecointe bibliographic text and old typographical layout, reproduced by faithful flat scan. Georges Lecointe died in 1929. No modern creative illustration on this page. Not an assertion of VLIZ CC licensing or institutional permission, and not clearance of the seven map plates with additional named contributors.

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