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1659 map prepared by Joan Blaeu based on voyages by Abel Tasman and Willem Jansz. As copied by Frenchman Thevenot. In turn copied by Englishman Emmanuel Bowen in 1744 and thought to have been used by James Cook. Tasman sailed north from New Zealand through the area marked Terre Australe.

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current15:55, 9 June 2005760×592 (83 KB)Moondyne (Talk | contribs) (Joan Blaeu's map of 1659 after Jaszoon & Tasman's voyages of 1642 and 1643. As copied by the Frenchman Thevenot. This map was in turn copied by the Englishman Emmanuel Bowen in 1744 and thought to have been used by Cook. Tasman sailed north from New Zeala)

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