The map shows the population of the Islands in the Atlantic in 1836. The islands shown are the Azores, Faroe Islands, Madeira, Canary Islands, Princes P, Fernando Po, Anno Bon, St.Thomas, Bermuda, Trinidade, Fernando Noronha, Falkland Islands, Cape De Verde, St. Helena, Ascension and Tristan Dacunha Island. It was engraved by J.&C. Walker.

Baldwin and Cradock 47 Paternoster publishes the maps under the Superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. It contains maps of the Islands of the Atlantic, The Antilles, British Island in the West Indies, the Empire of Japan and City plans of Dublin, Athen, Milan, Madrid, Liverpool, Moscow, Genoa etc.,