Nouvelle Hollande, Lapie, Paris 1811 - hand-coloured - framed print Size:A4 21x29.7 cm / 8x12″ The continent of Australia finally

The continent of Australia finally emerged on world maps following the charting expeditions of Frenchman Nicolas Baudin and Royal Navy captain Mathew Flinders

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

Southern Tasmania was firmly on the map but the connection between it and the known South West coast was fanciful

(Austrialia del Espiritu Santo) discovered by Fernandes de Quiros in 1605

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)

Nouvelle Hollande, Lapie, Paris 1811 - hand-coloured - framed print Size:A4 21x29.7 cm / 8x12″ The continent of Australia finallyThe 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