After the political troubles in the Dutch East Indies / Indonesia settled down in 1949, the somewhat neglected Dutch West Indies suddenly found themselves in the spotlight. The lack of ((school) wall) maps of Surinam and of the six islands which make up the Netherlands Antilles became clear. The few school wall maps of these areas which did exist before 1950 were not very useful [1]. An example is given in Figure 12. This map of the West Indies contains two much too small auxiliary maps of Surinam (scale 1 : 2.000.000) and of the main island of the Netherlands Antilles, Curaçao (scale 1 : 300.000).




However, after 1950 the risen level of Dutch school cartography also became apparent in the published school wall maps of Surinam. The map of Ferrari (1955) shown in Figure 13 is probably the first example of this. The clarity of the map is good, and the relief representation with hypsometric layers only is simple but effective. A disadvantage is the use of soil type colours (coastal zone) and hypsometric colours (inland) on the same map. The representation of the relief of Surinam on the school wall map published by Wolters (see Figure 14) is more realistic and more consistent (hypsometric colours and hill shading for the whole of Surinam). From comparing Figure 14 with Figure 10 it can be seen that both school wall maps originated from the same maker: ‘Cartografisch Instituut J.B. Wolters’.
 

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