Summary: | Corners are filled with native scenes, including animals, birds, boats and a representation of a penguin and of a penguin being hunted. Title in cartouche.; From: Het vijfde deel des grooten atlas. / Ioannem Ianssonium. 1650.; Hemispherical map, with notes, centred on the South Pole to the Tropic of Capricorn; includes southern parts of South America and South Africa and the west and south coasts of Australia. Relief and vegetation shown pictorially.; On verso: Beschryvinge van de Zvyder Pool. Dutch language, black type, 2 column text with ornate initial. Printed marginal headings.; At centre of map: Terra Australis Incognita.; Koeman, Me 168.; Tooley 729.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-t729.
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