This 1775 chart of the Straits of Malacca was produced based on materials gathering during the travels of Jean Baptiste Nicolas Denis D’Après de Mannevillette, a captain for the French East India Company. It was part of an expanded atlas – Le Neptune Oriental – published by Mannevillette charting much of the known world at that time. Singapore is identified in this map as “I. de Jatana ou de Saincapour” – a reference to the island being named either Singapore or Ujong Tanah, or land’s end.
