. This is an image of Nova totius Terrarum Orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula, a map of the world created by Hendrik Hondius in 1630, and published the following year in the atlas Atlantis Maioris Appendix. Among its claims to notability is the fact that it was the first dated map published in an atlas, and therefore the first widely available map, to show any part of Australia, the only previous map to do so being Hessel Gerritsz' 1627 Caert van't Landt van d'Eendracht ('Chart of the Land of Eendracht'), which was not widely distributed. The Australian coastline shown is part of the we
. This is an image of Nova totius Terrarum Orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula, a map of the world created by Hendrik Hondius in 1630, and published the following year in the atlas Atlantis Maioris Appendix. Among its claims to notability is the fact that it was the first dated map published in an atlas, and therefore the first widely available map, to show any part of Australia, the only previous map to do so being Hessel Gerritsz' 1627 Caert van't Landt van d'Eendracht ('Chart of the Land of Eendracht'), which was not widely distributed. The Australian coastline shown is part of the west coast of Cape York Peninsula, discovered by Jan Carstensz in 1623. Curiously, the map does not show the west coast features shown in Gerritsz' Caert. The original map was executed in 1630, and published in Henricus Hondius II (1597–) Alternative names Hendrick Hondius, Henricus Hondius II, Hendrik Hondius the Younger Description Dutch cartographer and publisher Date of birth/death 1597 16 August 1651 / 1644 Location of birth/death Amsterdam Amsterdam Authority control : Q983261 VIAF: 100213848 ISNI: 0000 0001 0928 6269 ULAN: 500042829 LCCN: n82143592 NLA: 36397871 WorldCat 449 Nova totius Terrarum Orbis geographica ac hydrographica tabula (Hendrik Hondius)
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