The East Indiamen of the British East India Company passed many places and stopped at many ports on their voyages from Britain to India and China in the 17th to 19th centuries, both on the way and as destinations. Some of these places were simply landmarks, but a number of the places were the locations of EIC factories, i.e., trading posts.
In many cases the spelling of the names of these locations has changed between then and now. One purpose of this list is to link, where possible, the names as given in ships' logs with the modern name. Names in italics represent cases where the modern and older name are different.
Acheh
Amboina
Amoy
Anger or Anjere
Angra Pequeña
Anjengo - site of Anchuthengu Fort & EIC factory (1684-1813)
Ascension Island
Babelmandel Island
Balambangan
Balasore; Balasore Roads is about 125 miles south of Calcutta; it provided a sheltered anchorage for vessels waiting a pilot or favourable winds to take them upriver, or to transfer cargo
Bandar Abbas
Banjarmasin (See also Tamborneo)
Bankshall - general term for the office of harbor-master or other port authority; at Calcutta the office stood on the banks of the Hooghli
Bantal 2°45′49.1″S 101°20′01.7″E - west coast of Sumatra in the Moco Moco district (see below); 20 miles SE of Moco Moco and 17 miles NW of Ipuh (see below)
Bantam; see also Banten Sultanate
Barrabulla or Barra Bulla is a sandbank that forms near Kedgeree (see below) in the Hooghli River.
Basara
Batavia
Bencoomat 5°30′S 104°12′E
Benkulen or Bencoolen; see also Fort Marlborough
Benguela
Bimilipatnam (or Bhimili)
Billiton is an island that also gave its name to a strait. See also Caramata. Billiton and Caramata islands flank a passage that connects the South China Sea to the Java Sea
Bombay
Bushire
Calcutta
Calicut
Cannanore
Cap-sing-Moon passage: A waterway between the northern tip of Lantoa and the Chinese mainland. Mah Wan Island splits the Passage into two channels, the narrower channel between Lanoa/Lantau and Ma Wan, and the wider between Ma Wan and the mainland.
Cape of Good Hope; equally Cape Colony
Cape Comorin
Caramata 1°37′S 108°53′E)
Caramata Passage; see also Billiton.
Carnicobar
Chumpee (Chuenpee) in the Bocca Tigris, the estuary of the Pearl River
Chusan
Cochin
Cochin China
Colvin's Ghat - a landing place (Ghat) at the offices of Colvin & Company, shippers, which were situated on the waterfront on the Hugli in Calcutta..
Condore
Coninga or Cocanada; sometimes referred to as Jaggernaickpuram
Coringa
Cox's Island (possibly Cox's Bazaar, Chittagong)
Crooe (Optical character recognition may render this as "Croce") - Krui 5.174154°S 103.931930°E / -5.174154; 103.931930, about seven miles SE of Pisang Island
Cuddalore
Culpee (or Coulpy or Kulpi): an anchorage towards Calcutta, and just below Diamond Harbour
Daman
Delagoa Bay
Diamond Harbour is about 41 miles south of Calcutta on the east side of the Hooghli.
Diamond Point
Diu
False Bay
Fernando de Noronha
Fort St. David
Fort St. George, India, also Madras
Fulta (or Fultah) - one of several related locations (Fultah village, Fultah point, etc.) on the Hooghli River. It is not the present day Fulta, which is much farther south. It may be the present day Falta.
Point de Galle
Ganjam
Goa
Great Nanka (2°25′S 105°48′E): one of the three Nanka Islands, which lie in Banka Strait, just off Banka Island (Palau Banka), which is part of the Banka Belitung Islands group.
Hong Kong Bay
Hugli or Hooghli
Ingeli (or Hijili, Engelee, Ingelee, or Hidgelee): a point on the west side of the Hooghli Estuary
Ipoh = Ipuh 2.999301°S 101.484517°E / -2.999301; 101.484517; west coast of Sumatra, not the city in Malaysia
Jagarall Creek, near Calcutta
Jambi - EIC factory 1613-1681
Jaggernaickpuram (or Jaggernaikpoeram, or Jagannathapuram). Also known as Cocinga or Cocanada
Johanna
Kamree Roads (Kamree may represent a mis-transcription of Ramree)
Karrack (or Karrach)
Karwar
Kedah
Kedgeree (or Kijari or Cutgerie), a point on the Hoogly half way between Calcutta and Saugor (see below), and a place where the river widens into a basin
Kidderpore
Kinsale
Lintin Island
Linton - probably Lintin (22°25′N 113°37′E)
Lombok
Madapallam 16°27′N 81°44′E, (or Madhavayapalem)
Madras
Madura Island
Mahé
Maio, Cape Verde
Malacca
Managalore
Manila
Manna Point or Town, southeast of Bengkulu, on the west coast of Sumatra; now Mana (4.484947°S 102.899207°E / -4.484947; 102.899207)
Masulipatam
Matavai, Tahiti
Mew Bay - about two miles east of Tanjung Layar
Mokha
Moco Moco
Muscat
Narsipore
Nagore
Negapatam
New Anchorage, Calcutta, near Diamond Harbour and Kedgeree
Nicobar Islands, or Nicobars.
North Island - the northmost of three islands in the bay that formed the principle anchorage of Enggano Island
Onore
Padang
Pattani
Penang
Perates - site where the East Indiaman Earl Talbot wrecked on 22 October 1800 with the loss of all hands.
Pisang (5.120294°S 103.847637°E / -5.120294; 103.847637), an island off the south coast of Sumatra, between Benkulen and Bengkunat (Bencoomat)
Pissang, or Pulo Pesang; in the 18th Century, Pulau Pemanggil was known as Pissang.
Point de Galle
Pondicherry
Port Cornwallis, on Ross Island in the Andaman Islands
Porto Novo
Porto Praya
Priaman
Pring: a pepper port some 16 miles northwest of Manna Point, on the west coast of Sumatra
Pulo Bay - a now silted-up natural harbor about eight miles southward of Benkulen (Benkulu).
Qishm
Quilon
Rajah Basah (or Raja Basa) Roads. Named for the volcano on the Sunda Strait, located at the most south-eastern point of Sumatra 05°47′00″S 105°37′30″E. The Roads are in Lampung Bay.
Rangoon
Rat Island: a small island west of Bengkulu
Rendezvous Island (Pulo Bauwal/Bauwal Island); 2°45′S 110°5′E, Borneo
Resolution Bay, Vanuatu; Captain James Cook named the bay after his vessel HMS Resolution
Rio de Janeiro
Rogues River: a section of the Hooghly River
St Augustine's Bay
St Helena
Sadras Roads
Saugor: is at the mouth of the Hooghli, about 100 miles downriver from Calcutta
St Paul's Island
Saldanha Bay
Saloomah, or Saloomale; on the coast of Sumatra between Fort Marlborough and Manna Point. Now Pasarseluma, Seluma Selatan (4.139799°S 102.517656°E / -4.139799; 102.517656)
St. Salvador, or San Salvadore, or Salvador
Santa Cruz
Santiago, Cape Verde, or São Tiago, or St Jago
Scindy road - probably the roadstead of Sindh, i.e., the waters off Karachi
Second Bar - about 20 miles before Whampoa
Samarang
Sillebar or Silebar - on the Strait of Malacca on the north coast of Sumatra: 3°14′04″N 99°32′37″E
Simon's Bay
Sukadana
Sulu
Surabaya
Surat
Swally
Tamborneo or Tomborneo
Tapanooli, Tappanooli, Tapanuli, or Tarapouly, Sumatra — possibly modern Tapnoeli or Tapian Nauli — site of an EIC factory
Teneriffe
Teinchin
Tiku
Timor
Tellicherry
Tranquebar
Trincomalee
Trinidade
Tristan de Cunha
Tryamong; also an EIC factory site, possibly also known as Priaman.
Urmston's Bay, formerly (pre-1823) Toon-Koo Harbour
Vizagapatam
Whampoa or Whampoa anchorage
"Broken Ground" - Coromandel Coast?
Capshee Bay
Cockelee
Doens (probably a typographical error for the Downs.)
Hollis Bay (possibly a miss-transcription of Wallis Bay)
Kissim Bay
Lombon Strait (not Lombok Strait)
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