The Tasman map : a biography of a map : Abel Tasman, the Dutch East India Company and the first Dutch discoveries of Australia / Ian Burnet.

Includes bibliographies and index.

The Tasman Map delves into the story of the first Dutch voyages to Australia, set against the background of the struggle of the newly formed Dutch Republic to gain its independence from the Kingdom of Spain and the struggle of the Dutch East India Company for trade supremacy in the East Indies against its Portuguese, Spanish and English rivals. Over a period of only forty years from 1606 to 1644 and based on sixteen separate discoveries the first map of Australia took shape. The Tasman Map shows a recognisable outline of the north, west and south coasts of Australia that was not to change for another 125 years until the British explorer James Cook charted the east coast in 1770. It was in 1925 and 1933 that the Mitchell Library in Sydney, Australia, acquired both the Tasman Huydecoper Journal and the Tasman Bonaparte Map. The story of how the library managed to acquire these treasures of Dutch exploration and cartography will bring new recognition to these icons of both Dutch and Australian history.

The Low Countries, the United provinces and the Dutch Republic -- Francisco Serrão and the Portuguese in the East Indies -- Ferdinand Magellan and the Spanish in the East Indies -- Spain and Portugal struggles for supremacy in the Moluccas -- Cornelis de Houtman and the Dutch in the East Indies -- The United Dutch East India company -- Willem Janzoon and the voyage of the Duyfken, 1606 -- Luis Vaz de Torres and the voyage of the San Pedrico, 1606 -- Jan Pieterszoon Coen and the founding of Batavia -- Francis Drake and the English in the East Indies -- Isaac Le Maire and the voyage of the Eendracht, 1615 -- Hendrick Brouwer and the Brouwer Route, 1610 -- Dirk Hartog and the discovery of Eendrachtlandt, 1616 -- Willem Janszoon and the voyage of the Mauritius, 1618 -- Frederick de Houtman and the voyage of the Dordrecht, 1619 -- John Brooke and the voyage of the Triall, 1622 -- Jan Carstenz and the voyage of the Pera and Arnhem, 1623 -- Jan Pieterszoon Coen and the voyage of the Gallias, 1627 -- Francois Thijssen and the voyage of the Gulden Zeepaard, 1627 -- Francois Pelsaert and the wreck of the Batavia, 1629 -- Anthony van Dieman as Governor-General, 1636 -- Gerrit Pool and the voyage of the Klein Amsterdam and Wessel, 1636 -- Abel Tasman and the voyage of the Heemskerk and Zeehan to Van Dieman's Land, 1642 -- Abel Tasman and the voyage of the Heemskerk and Zeehan to Statenlandt, 1643 -- Abel Tasman and the voyage of the Limmen, Zeemeeuw and de Bracq, 1644 -- The Amsterdam City Hall and the Tasman map -- The Mitchell Library, the Tasman Huydecoper Journal and the Bonaparte Tasman Map -- The Mitchell Library and the Tasman Map Mosaic.

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