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A Chart of New South Wales, or the east coast of New Holland by James Cook

James Cook (1728–1779)
A Chart of New South Wales, or the east coast of New Holland, discovered and explored by Lieutenant J. Cook, commander of his Majesty’s Bark Endeavour, in the year MDCCLXX [1770]
engraving; 34.5 x 77.4 cm
London: W. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1773
National Library of Australia

http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-t325

Dutch interest in charting the new continent largely ended with the VOC (Dutch East India Company) realising that there was little profit to be made from it. Even so, it is known that Cook relied on Dutch navigational charts to locate the east coast of New Holland. The official chart published in 1773 shows Cook's journey up the New South Wales coast during his first voyage to the Pacific, 1768–1771 in the Endeavour. The map is oriented with west at the top of the sheet. Together with the Dutch discoveries, this chart completed the mapping of the new continent's boundaries.