Right half of Eredia's Typus Orbis Terrarum

A map of the world represented as a single elongated spheroid, with the prime meridian running through or near the Cape Verde Islands: with the exception of <e Luca antara ” no place names are marked. The main feature of interest is a great antarctic continent almost enclosing the globe: commencing near Cape Horn the coastline runs nearly due east as far as the longitude of Madagascar where it bends away to the south-east and the line is broken: at the bend there is an entry “ PORTUGUEZES, with artillery, 1606 A.D after a short distance the coast-line is resumed in a north-easterly direction: here, below the area Java-Timor, is marked INDIA MERIDIONAL discovered in the year 1601 the general configuration of the country is similar to that shown on a larger scale in the map on folio 52: “ Luca antara” appears as a promontory running up towards Java: the coast-line is broken in the longtitude of New Guinea where the map ends: the eastern corner of New Guinea can be seen, however, on the extreme left of the map: some miles south-east of this is an island with its south coast left blank, and south of this again appears a large area of land, the coast line of which runs south-east for t

Date

1613

Mapmaker / publisher

Manuel Godinho de Erédia (1563–1623)

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

map

Original size

1,905 × 1,393 pixels

Need maps for a whole project? Add Find Any Map to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 21399.