Source: worldhistoryfacts.com --- Sunday, April 30, 2017
The first map in English of Australia (then New Holland): “A Complete Map of the Southern Continent: Survey’d by Capt. Abel Tasman & Depicted by Order of the East India Company in Halland [sic] in the Stadt House at Amsterdam.” Published 1744. The author noted that “is impossible to conceive a Country that promises fairer from its Scituation, than this of Terra Australis; no longer incognita, as this Map demonstrates …” ...
from Australia http://ift.tt/2oMUshD
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