Nouvelle Hollande, Vaugondy 1756 - stretched canvas - ready to hang Nova Hollande This map includes the coasts

This map includes the coasts discovered and charted more than a century earlier by a series of Dutch navigators including Tasman (West Coast of New Zealand) and Janzoon (West Coast of Cape York Peninsula)

the Spanish had suppressed his report in the hope of maintaining power via geographic secrecy and its existence was only confirmed by Cook on this first voyage in 1770

unlike many other maps of the time

In reality

who sailed with Pedro Fernandes de Quiros

Nouvelle Hollande, Vaugondy 1756 - stretched canvas - ready to hang Nova Hollande This map includes the coastsEven in the mid eighteenth century the complete outline of the Australian continent was only guessed at. Southern Tasmania was firmly on the map but the connection between it and the known South West coast was fanciful. This map includes the coasts discovered and charted more than a century earlier by a series of Dutch navigators including Tasman (Van Deimen's Land, the West Coast of New Zealand) and Janzoon (West Coast of Cape York Peninsula). The