Global Positioning System Reference
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(a)
(b)
FIGURE 6.1.
The Spice Islands. (a) Location of the northern Moluccas (small rect-
angle), which in historical times were the only sources of spices such as nutmeg and
cloves. (b) A 1630 map of the Spice Islands by Willem Blaeu (note that north is to the
right); this map is roughly the area shown in the rectangle of (a). The first maps of
this region are from a century earlier; by the time of this seventeenth-century map,
the Spice Islands were controlled by the Dutch.
(a) Modern map adapted from a map
courtesy of the CIA; (b) 1630 map from
Atlas Novus
, by Willem Blaeu.
