Terra Australis
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Terra Australis was a hypothetical continent first posited in antiquity and which appeared on maps between the 15th and 18th centuries. Its existence was not based on any survey or direct observation,
Western hemisphere of the Johannes Schöner globe from 1520
Guillaume Le Testu's 1556 Cosmographie Universel, 4me projection, where the northward extending promontory of the Terre australle is called Grande Jaue
Tabula geographica Regni Chile from 1646 depicts Terra Australis Incognita to the east of Tierra del Fuego.
Several waves of European seafarers explored the coastline of Australia. Dutch navigators were the first Europeans known to have explored and mapped the Australian coastline. The first documented enco
Replica ship of the Duyfken, the first European ship to reach Australia
Danckert Danckerts's copperplate engraving of Jacob Vennekool's sketch of the 1648 Amsterdam Burgerzaal floor mosaic in Jacob van Campen's 1661 Afbeelding van 't Stadt Huys van Amsterdam