Imperial Perspectives on Papua New Guinea: Paul Langhans’s Map of the Gazelle Peninsula (1893)
Between 1893 and 1897, the cartographer Paul Langhans (1867–1952), one of the leading figures at the Justus Perthes publishing house, produced an ambitious colonial atlas. As he proudly noted in the title, it contained 30 main maps and 300 side maps (Langhans 1897). The Deutscher Kolonial-Atlas was published in fifteen instalments, each costing 1.60 Mark. However, as historian Philip Julius...


