Nouvelle Guinee et Carpentarie

Image: 155 x 117 mm Hand coloured copper engraved map titled 'Nouvelle Guinee et Carpentarie'. This map has been removed from page 247 of ‘Des Terres Australes’ by Alain Manesson Mallet and is part of his monumental work ‘Description de l’Univers’ published in 1683. The map shows New Guinea joined to Cape York in Australia (called Carpentarie on the map) leaving vague the relationship between New Guinea and the coastline of Carpentaria, indicating they were joined. At this time the Dutch were unaware that Torres had sailed through the strait now named for him.