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Creator: La Perouse, Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de, 1741-1788.
Title: Carte d'une partie du Grand Ocean a l'E. et S.E. de la Nouvelle Guinee pour l'intelligence du voyage de la fregate espagnola la Princesa commandee par D. Franco Antonio Maurelle en 1781 [cartographic material].
Scale: Scale [ca. 1:16 000 000]
Publisher: [London] : Published as the Act directs Novr. 1st 1798 by G.G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster Row, [1799].
Date: 1799
Material Type: Map
Physical Description: 1 map ; 22.9 x 363 cm.
Notes: Lower right-hand corner: Neele sculpt Strand.

Map of the Pacific Ocean showing part of New Guinea and Australia and the tracks of Maurelle in 1781.

Plate no. 68 from: A voyage round the world, performed in the years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788, by the Boussole and Astrolabe / J.F. de G. La Perouse. 1799.

Prime meridian: Paris.

Phillips, 693.

Tooley, 1006.

Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-t1006
Subjects: Maurelle, Francisco Antonio -- Journeys -- Oceania -- Maps.
Voyages around the world -- Early works to 1800.
Australia -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
New Guinea -- Maps -- Early works to 1800.
Pacific Area -- Discovery and exploration -- Early works to 1800.
Australia -- 1781.
New Guinea -- 1781.
Pacific Area -- 1781.
Call Number: MAP T 1006
Amicus Number: 23217540
To cite this item use: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-t1006