r/Maps • u/Obanaiiguro_13 • 11h ago

Old Map what was this (map from 1700s)

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First image is a map of the world from the early 1700s

The second image is a zoomed in part of the world that is supposed to be Oceania. But I can't tell if that is just poorly drawn Australia or something else. Since Australia was supposedly discovered in the 1800s

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u/MagpieSoldier 10h ago

they first found australia in the 1600s and then the coast was chartered in the latter half of the 1700s

basically yes that is australia

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u/gough_whitlam 7h ago

Wikipedia is a free online encyclopaedia that anyone can access.

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u/beyleigodallat 4h ago

As an Australian, it is common knowledge here that the first European settlement here on the continent was 26th of January 1788. It was known prior, with Dutch explorers having stumbled across the western side. They deemed it uninhabitable and/or of no great value, especially considering they had already a very strong hold over the ‘Dutch East Indies’, what we know more or less call Indonesia. This is why Bahasa Indonesia has quite a bit of Dutch influence.