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
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/