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Mount Talakmau and other landmarks, Sumatra

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Date

c.1842

Artist

Unknown Artist

Collection

The Royal Society

Description

Landscape view of Talakmau, here described as ‘Mount Ophir’ a volcano on the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. With other landmarks and their positions noted, as seen from the sea. Inscribed: ‘View from the S.E.Point of Pulo Pinnee’. Figure no.15 from Report of the length of the pendulum at the equator...made on an expedition...from the observatory at Madras..., by John Goldingham (Madras, 1824).