Putting_Australia_on_the_Map.ogv
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Description Putting Australia on the Map.ogv |
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Martin Woods, Curator of Maps at the National Library of Australia, discusses early depictions of 'the great south land', from ancient Greek interpretations of the Antipodes to maps of New Holland by the Dutch in the 1600s and 1700s with the various names used including Terra Australis, Jave Le Grande and Magallanica. Some maps on display in the National Library of Australia's exhibition Mapping Our World: Terra Incognita to Australia include the anonymous work known as The Harleian Map, The Boke of Idrography by Jean Rotz and the the work of Hessel Gerritsz, Chief Cartographer of the Dutch East India Company.
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Source | YouTube : Putting Australia on the Map – View/save archived versions on archive.org and archive.today , Music: Bach's Cello Suite #1 (Bwv1007), 1st movement - Prelude, BWV 1007 , Played by John Michel. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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