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Hollandia Nova = Terre Australe

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Title
Hollandia Nova = Terre Australe
Subject
Early maps
Australia--Discovery and exploration
Discovery and exploration--French
Category
1. Settlement
Author
Thévenot, M. (Melchisédech)
Place of Publication
Paris
Place
Paris
Publisher
De l'imprimerie de Iacqves Langlois
Keywords
Dutch discoveries
Australia borders
Cartographers
geography
Current holder
State Library of South Australia
Period of reference
1663 – 1673
Link
https://digital.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/nodes/view/5810
Item number
b1633680
Access rights
Digitised
Rights
Permission to use this item for any purpose, including publishing, is not required from the State Library under these conditions of use.
Country of origin
France
Language
French
Description from source
[Hollandia Nova detecta 1644 = Terre Australe decouverte l'an 1644]
[New Holland = Terra Australis]
[Map showing Dutch discoveries of Australia]

Source: Relations de divers voyages cvrievx ... vol. 1-2, pt. 2, between pages numbered 50, 51.

Thevenot's map was the first map produced that was devoted entirely to Australia, and shows all of the Dutch discoveries of the Western Australian, North Australian, Tasmanian and that small section of South Australian coast to the Islands of St Francis and St Peter (Nuyts Archipelago). 'Land van P. Nuyts' includes the first section of the South Australian coast. The map also includes west coast of New Zealand (the two islands shown joined), and the south coast of New Guinea, which appears as if it may be joined to Australia. (Torres' discovery of the strait between was secret for many years.) Previous maps that showed the extent of knowledge of Australia's coast had been of the South Asian, East Indies region. Map is tipped in between first and second pages of 'La Terre Australe descouverte par le Capitaine Pelsart ...' numbered pp. 50, 51.

Note: each section of the volume is separately paged
Physical format
Books
Related resources
https://omaa-arts.sydney.edu.au/texts/3859/