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Creator: Gerritsz, Hessel, 1581?-1632.
Title: [Chart of the Malay Archipelago and the Dutch discoveries in Australia] [cartographic material] / bij Hessel Gerritsz. met Octroy van de H.M. Heeren de Staten generael der Vereenichde Neerlanden.
Scale: Scale [ca. 1:11,224,489].
Publisher: Amsterdam : Hessel Gerritsz, 1618.
Date: 1618
Material Type: Map
Physical Description: 1 map : hand col. ; 51 x 33 cm.
Notes: Scale calculated from one degree of latitude equaling 9,8 mm on the map.

The State Library of NSW copy is bound with J.E. Huydecoper van Maarssevee en Nigtevegt's copy of Abel Janszoon Tasman's Journal of his voyage of 1642-43 (Huydecoper Manuscript) now in the State Library of New South Wales.

Colour facsimile also included in: The part borne by the Dutch in the discovery of Australia, 1606-1765 / J.E. Heeres. London : Luzac, 1899.

The discoveries after 1618 were added to the engraved plate between 1628 ("G.F. de Wits landt, ontdect Ao. 1628") and 1632, as Gerritsz ceased to be the Cartographer in Ordinary to the Dutch East India Company on 3rd January 1633.

One of only three copies extant.

Also available in a digitised form via the Internet at http://image.sl.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/ebindshow.pl?doc=crux/a127;seq=28; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm750; Exhibited in online exhibition: 34zBSouth Land to New Holland"34y Bat http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/southland/ ANL
Subjects: Western Australia -- Discovery and exploration -- Maps.
Southeast Asia -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Western Australia -- 1618 -- Maps.
Call Number: MAP RM 750
Amicus Number: 22405296
To cite this item use: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm750