[Map of Balnibarbi and Laputa] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Map of Balnibarbi and Laputa]
Subject: Floating Islands; Fictional Works; Imaginary Places; Voyages; Gulliver
Period: 1850-1900;
Geographic: Laputa; Lagado; England
Description: This image depicts the fictional flying island of Laputa. There are regions of hills in the Southern, and North-West areas of the island. Forests are also shown in the North-East and Central regions. The city of Lagado is in the centre of the island. The town of Maldonado is in the South-East of the island. Above the island are letters, which depict the different ways in which the island moves, hovering over Balnibarbi through magnetic opposition on an adamantine base. The same map appears in other editions of Gulliver’s Travels, including those in other languages.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Cartographer)
Type: Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:21918
Language: eng
Source Name: Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver
Parent Collection: 1896 New York Longmans Green & Co.; 1896 New York Longmans Green & Co.
Image: mta_21918_OBJ.png
Collection: Gulliver's Travels
Subject: Floating Islands; Fictional Works; Imaginary Places; Voyages; Gulliver