A detailed chart of the islands of the Pacific Ocean. Australia appears as "Neu Holland vormals Ulimaroa" in the west, and in the east as "Neu Süd Wales oder die englische Stadthalterschaft Sydney Cove". Tasmania is separated from mainland Australia by Bass Strait, and "Kängurus I" (Kangaroo Island) and "Geographen Bay" (Geographe Bay) appear.
As Brown notes, "this map reflects the widely held view that the Australian continent may be divided by an internal se...
A detailed chart of the islands of the Pacific Ocean. Australia appears as "Neu Holland vormals Ulimaroa" in the west, and in the east as "Neu Süd Wales oder die englische Stadthalterschaft Sydney Cove". Tasmania is separated from mainland Australia by Bass Strait, and "Kängurus I" (Kangaroo Island) and "Geographen Bay" (Geographe Bay) appear.
As Brown notes, "this map reflects the widely held view that the Australian continent may be divided by an internal sea such that the east coast was separated from the rest of the continent. This is illustrated by the dotted line which extends from the south east corner of the Gulf of Carpentaria to the east part of present day Victoria; the gap in the coast would remain until the publication of the results of Baudin's and Flinder's voyages".
The mapmaker Joseph Marx von Liechtenstern (1765-1828) appears to have been an Australian historian and geographer.
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Literature: Tooley, 'The Mapping of Australia', 1214.
Final state
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Australia divided by an inland sea?
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Norie’s rare chart of the Pacific, and a tale of ‘Moby Dick’
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Lincolnshire – Bryant’s large scale map of Lincolnshire
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Cook’s rival
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Thevenot’s Voyages
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“A very new description of the peaceful sea, commonly called South Sea with the regions lying around it, and its islands, scattered everywhere” (Ortelius)
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Australia divided by an inland sea? 
Norie’s rare chart of the Pacific, and a tale of ‘Moby Dick’ ![BRYANT, A[ndrew] Map of the County of Lincolnshire](https://i0.wp.com/crouchrarebooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/14587_1H.jpg?fit=2651%2C3500&ssl=1)
Lincolnshire – Bryant’s large scale map of Lincolnshire 
Cook’s rival 
Thevenot’s Voyages 
“A very new description of the peaceful sea, commonly called South Sea with the regions lying around it, and its islands, scattered everywhere” (Ortelius) 
