Polar projection map of the Southern Hemisphere with early, speculative coastlines for southern Australia (at this time "New Holland") and Papua New Guinea. With the outlines for South America, Africa and South East Asia from the equator south.




This rather densely detailed map marks the tracks of early European explorers, marking the voyages of Cook, Byron, Dampier, Tasman, Bougainville, Furneaux amongst others. Circling the hemisphere, a table listing of the longitude and latitude positions for islands south of the equator.



Of particular interest on this map to collector's of both Cook and Antarctic material, and with the map originally being published in a compendium of Captain Cook's achievements, is the route marking his entry into the Antarctic Circle in 1774, during his Second Voyage (1772-75).




This piece was originally published in the French edition of "Cook's Voyages", skillfully engraved by Robert Bénard (1734-77) and published by influential Parisian publisher and writer Charles-Joseph Pancoucke (1736-98) in five volumes.



Coloured. [POLAR512]