The First Discovery of Australia and New Guinea

sphere, of the same

how how the Australian portion stands, in all

ia compares favorably with, for instance, North

shown as flying over Australian shores, a sure sign of annexation. The map-maker's name, Nicolas Desliens, date 1566, a

iscovery, I shall refer once more to the importance of the Lusitano-Spanish planispheres of the Dieppese school of cartography* because most of those documen

e at Dieppe; all of them were

tant of these manuscript charts. The following is the list

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