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Chart of New Holland

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Title: Chart of New Holland : with the adjacent countries and new discovere'd islands, 1787.
Publication details: [London : J. Stockdale], 1787
Physical description: 1 map ; 15.7 x 26.2 cm.
Scale: [ca. 1 : 65 000 000]
Notes: Map of Australian, Indonesian and the S.W. Pacific. Tasmania joined to Australia by assumed coastline from St Peters to S. Cape. Australia named New Holland.
Inset: "Botany Bay on the eastern coast of New Holland, with the adjacent harbours". Relief shown by hachures ; soundings and shipwrecks ; scale in British statute miles.
Inside frame, on neat line: "Longitude East From Greenwich".

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