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Willem Janszoon voyage.jpg

How Willem Janszoon, Dirk Hartog, Abel Tasman, Macassan traders and Lieutenant James Cook connected the Great Southern Land or Terra Australis to the world using maps and images as sources of evidence

Map based om Pomponius Mela — Alter Orbi

Ancient writers & Early maps

Aristotle ~ Pomponius Mela

Terra Australis Incognita

Dieppe Maps — "Java la Grande"

French claim discovery of Australia

Map is part of Doncker's The Sea Atlas (1659).jpg

Dutch maps & explorers

Willem Janszoon (1606)

Dirk Hartog (1616)

Abel Tasman (1642–1644)

Dutch maps and explorers

Captain Cook map.jpg

Captain James Cook

Chart of Botany Bay by Lieutenant James Cook

Macassan.jpg

Macassan traders

  • Map showing trepang trade route

  • Aboriginal rock art

  • Aboriginal bark painting

  • Painting of Macassan Traders

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