Nouvelle Hollande, Lapie, Paris 1811 - hand-coloured - framed print Size:A4 21x29.7 cm / 8x12″ almost all provided by Dutch

almost all provided by Dutch navigators in the employ of the Dutch East India Company (VOC)

This map includes the coasts discovered and charted more than a century earlier by a series of Dutch navigators including Tasman (West Coast of New Zealand) and Janzoon (West Coast of Cape York Peninsula)

As with many maps by this famous mapmaker

He was continuing a search for the southern continent that had lasted centuries and would not be dampened until Cook’s second voyage in the far southern Pacific proved that no such great continent existed

New Guinea and the South Pacific

Nouvelle Hollande, Lapie, Paris 1811 - hand-coloured - framed print Size:A4 21x29.7 cm / 8x12″ almost all provided by DutchThe continent of Australia finally emerged on world maps following the charting expeditions of Frenchman Nicolas Baudin and Royal Navy captain Mathew Flinders. This map is based on the Freycinet map, the first full map of the Australian continent, published by the French in the year 1811, following the Baudin expedition of 1800 1803. It now shows all the latest discoveries: Bass Strait (Detroit de Bas), Torres Strait (Detroit de Torres), Spencers Gulf