World Map in French
Full of fascinating cartographic details, this map is split into western and eastern hemispheres, which emphasise the broad Pacific Ocean and the large southern seas near the Antarctic; no southern continent (Antarctica) is shown. The eye is drawn particularly to the large landmass of Nouvelle Hollande, or Australia, which includes Van Dieman's Land, New Guinea, and eastern islands in its outline. The eastern most point that Vaugondy considers part of the Australian continent is Terre de S. Esprit, a reference to Austrialia de Espiritu Santo, a land contacted in 1606 by Pedro Ferdinand de Quiros. Quiros was an adamant promotor of Pacific colonization and he thought he had landed on a vast continent; in reality, he was on the largest island of the chain that makes up Vanuatu. Originally published in the year 1752 in France by Didier Robert de Vaugondy, who was appointed geographer to Louis XV.
Full of fascinating cartographic details, this map is split into western and eastern hemispheres, which emphasise the broad Pacific Ocean and the large southern seas near the Antarctic; no southern continent (Antarctica) is shown. The eye is drawn particularly to the large landmass of Nouvelle Hollande, or Australia, which includes Van Dieman's Land, New Guinea, and eastern islands in its outline. The eastern most point that Vaugondy considers part of the Australian continent is Terre de S. Esprit, a reference to Austrialia de Espiritu Santo, a land contacted in 1606 by Pedro Ferdinand de Quiros. Quiros was an adamant promotor of Pacific colonization and he thought he had landed on a vast continent; in reality, he was on the largest island of the chain that makes up Vanuatu. Originally published in the year 1752 in France by Didier Robert de Vaugondy, who was appointed geographer to Louis XV.
Full of fascinating cartographic details, this map is split into western and eastern hemispheres, which emphasise the broad Pacific Ocean and the large southern seas near the Antarctic; no southern continent (Antarctica) is shown. The eye is drawn particularly to the large landmass of Nouvelle Hollande, or Australia, which includes Van Dieman's Land, New Guinea, and eastern islands in its outline. The eastern most point that Vaugondy considers part of the Australian continent is Terre de S. Esprit, a reference to Austrialia de Espiritu Santo, a land contacted in 1606 by Pedro Ferdinand de Quiros. Quiros was an adamant promotor of Pacific colonization and he thought he had landed on a vast continent; in reality, he was on the largest island of the chain that makes up Vanuatu. Originally published in the year 1752 in France by Didier Robert de Vaugondy, who was appointed geographer to Louis XV.