Polar & expedition maps

Belgica expedition survey of Danco Land and nearby islands

Historical record

A separately catalogued expedition or regional map; scale Not Entered. It records historical cartographic knowledge, not evidence of hidden continents.

What this record establishes

Institutional record documented; does not authenticate interpretations.

Record details

Original title
Sketch of Danco Land, the Belgica Strait and Palmer Archipelago surveyed by Captain G. Lecointe. 1898
Artifact date
1901
Holding institution
Australian Antarctic Data Centre
Accession
AADC map 3679
Scale
Not Entered

Scope of evidence

Evidence of an original historical map or manuscript, not evidence of hidden lands or a non-spherical Earth.

Sketch of Danco Land, the Belgica Strait and Palmer Archipelago

Three overlapping color scan panels of Lecointe’s Danco Land map and voyage inset, published in 1901 from the 1898 survey. This is a panel overview with visible gaps, not a continuous or seamless reconstruction. Repeated geography results from overlap in the original scans.

Georges Lecointe (1869–1929), survey 1898; Royal Geographical Society, The Geographical Journal, 1901. Color map scan via Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ). Independent public-domain expiry assessment; no institutional licence asserted.

Same named printed chart and publication year as AADC catalog; independent digitization, not clearance to reuse AADC preview pixels. No accessible VLIZ item-specific reuse statement found; reuse rests on the independent-expiry assessment rather than express institutional permission.

Image source record · Reuse terms

Image rights and evidence limits

Independent public-domain assessment for the map only: English-language map published in 1901, named map author Georges Lecointe died 1929; term expired in the US and under UK/Belgian life-plus-70 rules. No additional named engraver appears on the inspected map. This does NOT clear the entire article by Henryk Arctowski (died 1958), nor unrelated VLIZ materials. VLIZ PDF has no explicit map-specific licence; no claim of CC 0/CC BY or express VLIZ permission. Exact old map pixels only, no website editorial text or modern illustrations.

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