Mapping the Antipodes: Australia in early maps - Australian Geographic
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Mapping the Antipodes: Australia in early maps
BY Alasdair McGregor |
August 15, 2014
A series of maps trace the unveiling of Australia, from the fantasies of second-century Egypt to Flinders’ last work.
FROM ANCIENT imaginings of the medieval world – where Jerusalem lay at the centre of creation – to sumptuous wall charts proclaiming the might of European empires, a series of maps on display at the National Library of Australia (NLA) takes us through centuries of geographical speculation about the Southern Hemisphere.