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Making New Zealand vol 01 no 01: The Beginning
During his first voyage Captain Cook proved that New Zealand was not part of a Great Southern Continent. This 'Dauphin' map of the world, made by Pierre Desceliers in 1546 to the order of Francis I. of France, for the education of his son, the Dauphin, shows the mythical 'Terra Australis' or Great Southern Continent. Note that the geographers of the period reversed all objects on one side of the Equator
During his first voyage Captain Cook proved that New Zealand was not part of a Great Southern Continent. This 'Dauphin' map of the world, made by Pierre Desceliers in 1546 to the order of Francis I. of France, for the education of his son, the Dauphin, shows the mythical 'Terra Australis' or Great Southern Continent. Note that the geographers of the period reversed all objects on one side of the Equator.