Image:Desceliers 1550 map - Australia detail.jpg
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This is a detail from a 1550 world map by Pierre Desceliers, from the location where Australia would be, and purportedly showing Australian features. It is one of the Dieppe maps, which are commonly put forward as evidence for the theory that the Portuguese discovered Australia in the 16th century. |
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This is a cropped and colour-balanced scan of an 1898 facsimile of this detail, taken from the British Museum's copy of the original map. Access to it is available on the National Library of Australia's website, at http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm2057-5. The graphical user interface provided does not support downloading the full image at full resolution, but the back end can be cajoled to do so by manually editing the CGI arguments in the URL. |
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| current | 01:03, 2 May 2008 | 2,711×2,589 (1.1 MB) | Hesperian | (colour balanced) |
| 12:34, 20 February 2008 | 2,711×2,589 (920 KB) | Hesperian | (much higher resolution) | |
| 12:18, 28 December 2007 | 732×696 (191 KB) | Hesperian | ({{Information |Description=This is a detail from a 1550 world map by Pierre Desceliers, from the location where Australia would be, and purportedly showing Australian features. It is one of the Dieppe maps, which are commonly put forward as eviden) |
