Some examples of early maps of the Australian continent, showing how European map-makers envisaged the great south land.

1. Week 3:
Early maps of the Australian continent
Australian Studies
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2. Typus Orbis Terrarum, include the Terra Australis
Drawn by the cartographer Abraham Ortelius(1527-1598) around 1570.

3. Terra Australis recenter inventa sed nondum plene cognita
(“Terra Australis, recently discovered but not yet fully known”).
Johannes Schöner, globe of 1533: southern hemisphere.

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

5. Rumold Mercator -
Atlas sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica Mundi et Fabricati Figura (publ. 1595)

6. Terra Australis Incognita (“unknown southern land”)
1657 map by Jan Janssonius.