Septentrionalium terrarum descriptio [cartographic material] /

• Main Author: Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594.
• Other Authors: Mercator, Gerhard, 1512-1594. Atlas sive cosmographicae meditationes de fabrica mundi et fabricata figura.
• Format: Still Image
• Language: unknown
• Published: [Amsterdami : Sumptibus & typis aeneis Henrici Hondij, 1628]. 1628
• Subjects: Arctic regions > Maps > Early works to 1800; Arctic; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; Norway; North Pole; Bear Island; Arctique*; Spitsbergen
• Online Access: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm150

Map of the Northern Hemisphere from the Arctic Pole to latitude 60°North. The map is surrounded by a decorative border with four circular insets, three of which feature an island or islands within the perimeter of the larger map. Both Svalbard archipelago, located about midway between mainland Norwa...