This detail from an 18th-century map by Pierre Mortier of The Netherlands names several dozen of the Maldive Islands off the southwestern coast of India. Map title: <i>Carte particuliere d'une partie d'Asie ou sont les Isles d'Andemaon, Ceylan, les Maldives: dressé sur les memoires le plus nouveaux.</i>
Pierre Mortier of The Netherlands
circa 1700 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P,+1700-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902</div>
<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3415503">http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3415503</a>, which says "Probably from: Suite du Neptune François ou Atlas nouveau des cartes Marines /­ Pierre Mortier. Amsterdam : Chez Pierre Mortier, 1700."