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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
Light Horse charge at Beersheba on 31 October 1917
www.lighthorse.org.au/histbatt/photo.htm