Early maps of the Australian continent

Week 3:

Early maps of the Australian continent

Australian Studies

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Typus Orbis Terrarum, include the Terra Australis

Drawn by the cartographer Abraham Ortelius(1527-1598) around 1570.

Terra Australis recenter inventa sed nondum plene cognita

(“Terra Australis, recently discovered but not yet fully known”).

Johannes Schöner, globe of 1533: southern hemisphere.

"Terra Australis" in a map by Cornelius Wytfliet from 1597

Rumold Mercator -

Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura (publ. 1595)

Terra Australis Incognita (“unknown southern land”)

1657 map by Jan Janssonius.