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C1683
Nouvelle Guinee et Carpentarie.
Mapmaker:
Alain Manesson Mallet (1630 - 1706)
Early map showing the Dutch discoveries in Queensland and New Guinea. Jan Cartens in the Pera and the Arnhem left Ambon on 21 January 1623 and reached the western side of Cape York Peninsula on 12 April. On this map, … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Nouvelle Guinee et Carpentarie.
Date:
C1683
Mapmaker:
Alain Manesson Mallet (1630 - 1706)
Condition:
In good condition
Technique:
Copper engraving.
Image Size:
113mm
x 153mm
Paper Size:
138mm
x 207mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1683
Description:
Early map showing the Dutch discoveries in Queensland and New Guinea. Jan Cartens in the Pera and the Arnhem left Ambon on 21 January 1623 and reached the western side of Cape York Peninsula on 12 April.
On this map, the peninsula known today as Cape York is named ‘Carpentarie’, after the then governor-general of the VOC Pieter Carpentier. ‘Carpentaria’ was later applied to the adjacent gulf. On 7 May, Cartens named the Coen River (present-day Archer River) near Weipa.
The first European landing on the Australian continent occurred in 1606. The Dutch East India Comapny (VOC) ship, Duyfken under the command of Willim Janz landed near present day Weipa on the western side of Cape York.
In 1605 the yacht Duyfken with Captain Willem Jansz was placed at the disposal of Govemor de Houtman by Admiral Steven van der Haghen. De Houtman gave orders for the expedition to the so-called “southern lands” to Jansz. On 26 October 1605 the English Captain Satis, of the English East India Company at Bantam made the following entry in his diary:
The sixe and twentieth, Admirall Vanhangen [sic] of Utricke departed for Holland, with two ships more in company, by whom we advised the Company of all matters at large. A month later he added the following information in his record:
The eighteenth [November], heere departed a small pinnasse of the Flemmings, for the discovery of Ule Island called Nova ginnea, which, as it is said, affordeth great store of Gold”
He receives more news about the Duyfken half a year later, when he wtites:
The tifteenth of .lunc [1606] have arrived Nockhoda Tingall a Cling-man from Banda, in a .lava .lunk, laden with mace and nutmeg, the which he sold to the Guzerats; he told me Ulat the Flemmings Pinnasse which went upon discovery for Nova Ginny, was returned to Banda, having found the !land: but in sending their men on shoare to intreate of Trade, there were nine of them killed by the Heathens, wluch are men-eaters: so they were constrained to reLUrne, tinding no good to be doene there”.
From, Mallet’s, Description de l’Univers, Paris.
References: CLA MOTA pg 89 ill 6.23, HOW EOE C51 pg 193, NLA OMD Bib ID 589963
Mapmaker:
Alain Manesson Mallet (1630-1706)
French engineer, taught mathematics & geometry at the court of Louis XIV & was an expert in fortifications. He produced an atlas, “Description DE L’Univers Conten Du Monde..”
