File:Desceliers 1550 map - Australia detail.jpg

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Description This is a detail from a 1550 world map by Pierre Desceliers, from the location where Australia would be, and purportedly showing Australian features. It is one of the Dieppe maps, which are commonly put forward as evidence for the theory that the Portuguese discovered Australia in the 16th century.
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Source This is a cropped and colour-balanced scan of an 1898 facsimile of this detail, taken from the British Museum's copy of the original map. Access to it is available on the National Library of Australia's website, at http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm2057-5. The graphical user interface provided does not support downloading the full image at full resolution, but the back end can be cajoled to do so by manually editing the CGI arguments in the URL.
Author
Pierre Desceliers  (1487–1553)  wikidata:Q44053
 
Pierre Desceliers
Alternative names
Pierre Descalier
Description French cartographer and Catholic priest
Date of birth/death 1487 Edit this at Wikidata after 1553
date QS:P,+1553-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+1553-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
/ 1553 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Arques-la-Bataille
Work period from 1537 until 1553
date QS:P,+1550-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1537-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1553-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Dieppe Edit this at Wikidata
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