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Dese pascaerte vertoont (route of the Duyfken)

Dese Pascaerte Vertoont

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Dese pascaert vertoont de wegh, soo int heen als in het weerom seylen, die gehouden is bij het jacht het Duijfien in het besoecken van de landen beoosten Banda, tot aen Nova Guinea.
Map of the islands in the Banda Sea and the New Guinea region showing the tracks of the Duyfken in 1606.
engraving; 61.5 x 56.0 cm
Reproduction: Monumenta cartographica, Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1925
National Library of Australia

http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-ra265-s125

This copy of the map drawn on board the Duyfken marks the beginning of Dutch discovery. The map itself was not published for many years, when the VOC (Dutch East India Company) published volumes known as the 'secret atlas of the VOC'. This map shows the route taken by the Duyfken, and the location of its first landfall at 11°45'S.