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Java and Australia – Iava Maior e Nuca Antara [Java e Australia]

Title: Java and Australia – Iava Maior e Nuca Antara [Java e Australia]
Subject: Early maps; Malaysia; Coasts--Australia; Indonesia; Discovery and exploration
Category: 1. Settlement
Author: Eredia, Manuel Godinho de, 1563-1623
Current holder: Library of Congress
Date: 1630
Link: https://www.loc.gov/item/2021668359/
Item number: 2021668359
Access rights: Digitised
Rights: The Library of Congress is unaware of any copyright or other restrictions in the World Digital Library Collection
Language: Portuguese
Description from source: Summary This manuscript map of Java and the tip of northern Australia is a copy of an earlier work by the Malaysian-Portuguese cartographer Emanuel Godinho de Eredia (1563-1623). In the 16th century, Portugal sent several expeditions to explore the islands south of Malaysia; it is possible that they gained some knowledge about the geography of Australia from these missions. Some scholars have speculated that the Malays had a knowledge of Australia, which Eredia somehow absorbed. The first documented European sighting of Australia was by the Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon, in 1606. Original resource extent: 1 manuscript map ; 37 x 49 centimeters. Original resource at: National Library of Brazil.
Physical format: Maps
Related resources: New Hydrographic Map of the Sea and New Southern Lands: Made by the Cosmographer and Mathematician Emanuel Godinho de Eredia.

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