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Page 1: Early maps of the Australian continent

Week 3:

Early maps of the Australian continent

Australian Studies

900077

Page 2: Early maps of the Australian continent

Typus Orbis Terrarum, include the Terra Australis

Drawn by the cartographer Abraham Ortelius(1527-1598) around 1570.

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Terra Australis recenter inventa sed nondum plene cognita

(“Terra Australis, recently discovered but not yet fully known”).

Johannes Schöner, globe of 1533: southern hemisphere.

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"Terra Australis" in a map by Cornelius Wytfliet from 1597

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Rumold Mercator -

Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura (publ. 1595)

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Terra Australis Incognita (“unknown southern land”)

1657 map by Jan Janssonius.