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Cartographer: Alain Manesson Mallet
Title: : Nouvelle Guinee et Carpentarie
Date: 1683 Size: 5 x 6 inches
Published: Paris
Description: Miniature map of New Guinea showing a possible land connection to Australia. The existence of the Torres Strait, which separates the two landmasses, was only confirmed in 1770 by James Cook. Coloured.
Map Ref: AUNZ2157

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Cartographer: Capt. James Cook
Title: : Carte des Découvertes du Capt. Carteret dans la Nle. Bretagne avec une Partie du Passage du Capt. Cook a travers Les Détroits Endeavour
Date: 1774 Size: 25 x 9 inches
Published: Paris
Description: Papua New Guinea. Route of James Cook (1768 - 1771) and William Dampier (1699 - 1701). French Edition of Cook's Voyages.
Map Ref: AUNZ2718

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Cartographer: Philippe Vandermaelen
Title: : Océanique Partie de la Nouvelle Guinée. No. 22 [Papua, Indonesia]
Date: 1827 Size: 22 x 18 inches
Published: Brussels
Description: West Papua and Papua in Indonesia, covering the Banda Arc, the Maluku Islands in the Banda and Arafura Seas. Original hand-colour. (SL)
Map Ref: AUNZ1907

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Cartographer: Philippe Vandermaelen
Title: : Océanique Partie de la Nouvelle Guinée. No. 31 [Papua New Guinea]
Date: 1827 Size: 22 x 18 inches
Published: Brussels
Description: Southeastern Papua New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago and part of the Solomon Sea. Original hand-colour. (SL)
Map Ref: AUNZ1919

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Cartographer: Philippe Vandermaelen
Title: : Océanique Partie de la Nouvelle Guinée. No. 23 [West Papua and Papua]
Date: 1827 Size: 22 x 18 inches
Published: Brussels
Description: Northern Papua from the Schouten Islands, east to the Cycloop Mountains in Jayapura, and east further to the border with New Guinea. Original colour. (SL)
Map Ref: AUNZ1925

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Cartographer: James Imray
Title: : East India Archipelago. (Eastern Passage. Chart No.3)
Date: 1863 Size: 51 x 41 inches
Published: London
Description: Detailed survey of the Torres Strait and New Guinea. Large Blue-Back Chart with extensive soundings. [tube]
Map Ref: AUNZ2433

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