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Sunday, April 27, 2008
Dutch Orange Day in New Holland
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Posted by James Clark - editor of itravelnet.com
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G'day James.
I found the map very interesting.
It just so happens that in the process of researching the Australian explorer, John McDouall Stuart, just the other day, I came upon an account of the Portuguese exploration of Cape York Peninsular in the early 1600s and a description of a map.
The author explains the distortion of Cape York, as in your map, in the following way:
The original charts were made on animal skin parchments. The map was too big for one parchment so possibly four were used. When it came time for the parchments to be copied for publishing, one of the parchments was misaligned by 90 degrees.
Makes sense to me.
Regards,
Laurie.
I found the map very interesting.
It just so happens that in the process of researching the Australian explorer, John McDouall Stuart, just the other day, I came upon an account of the Portuguese exploration of Cape York Peninsular in the early 1600s and a description of a map.
The author explains the distortion of Cape York, as in your map, in the following way:
The original charts were made on animal skin parchments. The map was too big for one parchment so possibly four were used. When it came time for the parchments to be copied for publishing, one of the parchments was misaligned by 90 degrees.
Makes sense to me.
Regards,
Laurie.
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