Geographical Reviews: Atlas of the Netherlands Indies

Summary

This review of the Atlas of the Netherlands Indies (1938) highlights that it was jointly produced by the Royal Netherlands Geographical Society and the Topographical Service of the Netherlands Indies. The atlas comprises 31 plates with large and small maps covering the Malay Archipelago, including large-scale relief maps of Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Celebes, Moluccas, and Dutch New Guinea, as well as thematic maps on geology, climate, flora, fauna, population, languages, education, economy, and colonial history. The reviewer praises the atlas's comprehensiveness and readability but criticizes inconsistent color schemes, shading that obscures elevations, and the absence of a map of European plantations in Java.