T Zuijd landt ontdeckt door Willem de Vlaming in den Maande van Jan an February 1697 met t Yagt de Geelvink de Hooker de Nijptang ent Galjoot t Weseltje [cartographic material]
- Bib ID:
- 3772888
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Keulen, Gerard van
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Related Online Resources:
- Related online exhibition
- Scale:
- Scale [1:422,400].
- Description:
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- [1697-1726]
- 1 ms. map : col. ; 57.0 x 96.8 cm.
- Full contents:
- Inset: [Bernier Island, Dorre Island, Dirk Hartog Island]. Scale not given.
- Biography/History:
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According to Günter Schilder's Voyage to the Great South Land, Willem de Vlamingh with a fleet of three ships, Geelvinck, Nijptangh and Weeseltje, undertook in 1696-97 the last large-scale voyage undertaken by the Dutch East India Company. One of its objectives was to investigate the disappearance of the Company's ships believed to have been wrecked on the coast of the Great South Land. In succeeding in this task Vlamingh was the first to arrive intentionally at the coast of Western Australia, then named Land of the Eendracht (a reference to Dirck Hartog's exploration aboard the Eendracht making the first recorded accidental discovery of this land in 1616). Vlamingh's crew first sited Rottnest Island on December 29, 1696. On January 4 1697 they began surveying the mainland coastline from Swan River up to Exmouth Gulf before departing for Batavia on February 21. Vlamingh in fact made a detailed chart of the Western Australian coastline in his ship's journal but that was subsequently lost in Batavia.
- Notes:
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- Map of the coast of Western Australia originally sketched by Willem de Vlamingh in 1697 stretching from Kalbarri north to Vlamingh Head on North West Cape. Block of text describes various topographic features on the map where Vlamingh landed as well as general observations. Decorative features include rhumb lines and two coloured compass roses. Relief is shown pictorially and depth shown by bathymetric soundings. After Vlamingh's fleet arrived back in Batavia, Victor Victorszoon was commissioned to redraw Vlamingh's journal sketches which included the chart of the western coastline of the Great South Land. This reproduction was to be stored away in the archives of the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) until Gerard van Keulen obtained access and copied it retaining much of its original detail though the layout was altered, decorative features reduced and the text mentioning Rottnest Island omitted.
- Examined by Günter Schilder and attributed to Gerard van Keulen in Günter Schilder's Voyage to the Great South Land, Willem de Vlamingh, 1696-1697 (Sydney : Royal Australian Historical Society in association with the Australian Bank, 1985), p. 95.
- Includes text in the upper part of the map.
- Considered by Schilder [p. 94-95] to be issued as a ms. map included amongst 74 printed maps from an undated issue of an atlas entitled: Nieuwe groote lichtende zeefakkel. Amsterdam : Gerard van Keulen.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-231306393
- In Dutch.
- Intended as the northern portion of a larger map to be used in conjunction with: Zuijd land ontdeckt door Willem de Vlamingh in de Maande van Jan an Febrii 1697 met t Yagt de Geelvink de Hooker de Nyptang ent Galjoot 't Weseltje.
- Cited In:
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- Voyage to the Great South Land, Willem de Vlamingh, 1696-1697 (Sydney : Royal Australian Historical Society in association with the Australian Bank, 1985)
- Tooley's dictionary of mapmakers, Rev. ed, v. 2, p. 198
- Subject:
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- Vlamingh, Willem de, 1640- -- Travels -- Western Australia -- Maps
- Geelvinck (Ship)
- Nyptang (Ship)
- Weseltje (Ship)
- Coasts -- Western Australia -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
- Dirk Hartog Island (W.A.) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
- Dorre Island (W.A.) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
- Bernier Island (W.A.) -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
- Western Australia -- Maps -- Early works to 1800
- Genre/Form:
- Manuscript maps
- Time Coverage:
- 1697
- Other authors/contributors:
- Exhibited:
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- Exhibited in online exhibition: "South Land to New Holland"" at http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/southland/
- Exhibited: "Mapping our World : Terra incognita to Australia", National Library of Australia, Canberra, 7 November 2013 to 10 March 2014.
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Since 1937
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- Material type:
- Artistic
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1950
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