First edition, of this map focused on Polynesia, "in its post-Cook, post-Flinders state, the Dutch discoveries in Australia are noted, and establishments of the first fleet, e.g. Hawkesbury River, Sydney Cove, Rose Hill, and (for first time on a German map) Parramatta - plus Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands, and New Caledonia. Australia is named Ulimaroa" (Brown). Tasmania remains connected to the mainland.

The mapmaker
Freidrich Gottlieg Canzler (1764-1811) was a professor at Gottingen, and worked for the cartographic firm of Homann's Heirs in Nuremberg.