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Thévenot, M. (Melchisédech)

De l'imprimerie de Iacqves Langlois

Dutch discoveries

Australia borders

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geography

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1663 to 1673

[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.

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