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Major James Rennell FRS FRSE FRGS (3 December 1742 – 29 March 1830) was an English geographer, historian and a pioneer of oceanography.Rennell produced some of the first accurate maps of Bengal at one inch to five miles as well as accurate outlines of India and served as Surveyor General of Bengal.
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A view of Jamuna River from Jamuna Bridge. In Bangladesh, the Brahmaputra is joined by the Teesta River (or Tista), one of its largest tributaries. James Rennell made a survey between 1764 and 1777 and his maps are one of the earliest authentic maps of Bengal in existence. In these maps, Teesta is shown as flowing through North Bengal in ...
James Rennell's 1776 map shows the eastern boundary of the British controlled regions before 1824. The administrative district of Kamrup was first constituted from the western portion of the Ahom kingdom then under the Burmese Empire that the British acquired following the Treaty of Yandaboo of 1826. [3]
A typical landscape in the delta with palms, rice, flat, green and ponds Delta of Ganges from the map of surveyor James Rennell (1778). The Ganges Delta has the shape of a triangle and is considered to be "arcuate" (arc-shaped).
Teesta River is a 414 km ... James Rennell's 1776 map shows an earlier flow of the Teesta meeting the Ganges in three channels before a devastating flood in 1787 ...
A map of Africa, made by John Cary in 1805, showing the Mountains of Kong extending eastwards to the Mountains of the Moon. The Mountains of Kong on a West African Map from 1839. The Mountains of Kong are a legendary mountain range charted on maps of Africa from 1798 through to at least the late 1880s. [ 1 ]