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
>