Map of La Terre Australle Desceliers, 1550
The south eastern section of a famous manuscript map held in the British library; It shows what is widely believed to represent Portuguese discoveries along the east coast of Australia in the early 1500s
- Date
- 1550
- Place
- Africa
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 13,135 × 12,418 pixels
Public domain
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