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Early Maps of Australia |
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This is one of the very few pre-Cook maps showing only Australia. Produced in 1753 by Frenchman, Jacques Nicolas Bellin, the imaginary line goes from Tasmania to Espiritu Santo to PNG. The coastal note translates: I suppose that the land of Dieman can join with the land of the Holy Ghost but this is without proof."
Early Map of Africa India Australia
Early Map of Australia & Indonesia
Terra Australis Incognitia map of 1587
Nova Hollandia (New Holland) by Abel Tasman of 1644
Map of Australia by Matthew Flinders of 1814 (National Library of Australia ref: nla.map-t570)
