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Title: Down memory lane : geographies of Maltese coastal villages at the turn of the 20th century
Authors: Schembri, John A.
Gauci, Ritienne
Farrugia, Charles J.
Callus, Leonard
Keywords: Coastal mapping -- Malta -- History
Coasts -- Malta -- Maps -- History
Geomorphology -- Malta
Malta -- Historical geography
Malta -- History -- British occupation, 1800-1964
Issue Date: 2014-05
Publisher: University of Malta. Faculty of Arts. Department of Geography
Citation: Schembri, J. A., Gauci, R., Farrugia, C. J., & Callus, L. (2014). Down memory lane: geographies of Maltese coastal villages at the turn of the 20th century. EUROGEO Conference 2014: The power of geography and the role of spatial information, University of Malta, Valletta Campus.
Abstract: At the turn of the 20th century Malta had been a hundred years under British rule and the cartographic knowledge developed in the United Kingdom through the Ordnance Survey, was used in Malta to represent the rural, urban and maritime landscapes. In addition, the Maltese landscape had already been drawn at various scales during the preceding centuries. These included the identification of Malta’s centrality in the Mediterranean, initially through Herodotus’ maps, then through Piri Reis’s cartographies and subsequent portolan charts. However the detailed surveying and mapping ensued with the Knights of St John from the sixteenth century and the British as from the nineteenth with engineers, surveyors, cartographers, allied technical and other staff using the necessary equipment and accompanied by local personnel prepared and updated terrestrial maps and bathymetric charts. A geographical inventory was thus developed and showed physical attributes, military installations and defences, roads and also monitored urban growth. [Excerpt from the Introduction]
URI: https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/88231
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