I'm still working on this. I say it is not Mt. Arakai, Japan. http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.03645,+139.64470+%28Coordinates%29&iwloc=A&hl=en It's more likely to be India that Australia. Europe is probably the most likely. I'll get back to you, but I may not find anything. Mike On 11/29/20 8:44 PM, MAPS-L automatic digest system wrote: > Subject: > Help needed: Map of Arakalee? > From: > Brendan Whyte <[log in to unmask]> > Date: > 11/29/20, 6:29 PM > > > The National Library of Australia has received an enquiry from someone > who owns a 19^th century oil painting (a fruit-in-a-basket still > life), painted on cardboard with an old map glued to the rear. > > The painting (and map) are 34 x 25.5 cm. > > Sepia-coloured, the map appears to be a photographic reproduction of > an originally pen-and-ink map with possible colour. > > The map (attached) is quite large-scale, and shows a mountain with a > road winding up it. A river flowing from the mountain has a wide > shaded line (originally colour?) that appears to be a boundary (though > the road crosses it twice). > > On both sides of the river are ‘huts’, one group also annotated ‘Arakalee’ > > On the mountain top is a ‘flag staff’ and ‘gun’ (with typical military > symbol). > > The map style suggests 19^th century European military mapping. > > Arakalee is not Maori (so can't be NZ), but suggests possibly > Australia or more likely India to me (Arakali?) > > Can anyone help identify the location? > > Brendan Whyte > > Coordinator, Collection Retrieval and Delivery, > > National Library of Australia >