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"Volume I: The old WIC, 1621-1674" of the Comprehensive Atlas of the Dutch West India Company, which is scheduled to appear in October/November 2011, will in this way deal with the legacy of manuscript maps, ground-plans and topographical depictions from the entire WIC charter area in the period up to 1674. In the first place much attention will naturally be devoted to the colonies of New Netherland (Nieuw Nederland, with New Amsterdam, the present New York, 1624-1664) and Brazil (1624-1654). As well as these the volume will present a complete survey in map and image of the early WIC settlements in the Antilles, on what was called the Wild Coast or Guyana including the later Surinam, and on the coasts of Africa, and of the various explorations and military operations carried out by Dutch fleets in the area of the Atlantic Ocean and along the Pacific coasts of South and Central America.