1792 Wilkinson Map of New South Wales, Australia

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Seller: geographicusmaps ✉️ (4,751) 100%, Location: Brooklyn, New York, US, Ships to: AMERICAS, EUROPE, ASIA, AU, Item: 351959790598 1792 Wilkinson Map of New South Wales, Australia.
1792 Wilkinson Map of New South Wales, Australia
WE SELL ONLY ORIGINAL ANTIQUE MAPS - NOT REPRODUCTIONS Title: A New and Accurate Map of New South Wales, also Norfolk and Ld. Howes Islands, from Actual Surveys. Description: This is a rare 1792 map of the New South Wales, Australia, by Robert Wilkinson. One of the first maps to detail the British colonization of Australia, Wilkinson's map covers eastern Australia from the endeavors Straits south as far as Cape Dromedary, including Botany Bay and modern day Sidney. New Caledonia appears in the upper right quadrant. The region of New South Wales was named by Captain James Cook, who explored the coast in 1770. The First Fleet, as it is known in Australian history, sailed from England with 1,487 colonists to settle the Australian coast in 1787. Landing near Botany Bay in 1788, the colonists of the First Fleet founded Sydney in Port Jackson, identified here. An inset, in the lower left details Norfolk Island. This small Polynesian island, located roughly 290 British Leagues east of Australia, was proposed and developed by John Call as an auxiliary colony to the 1788 British settlement of New South Wales. Given its remoteness the Norfolk Island was, almost from the beginning a penal settlement, its first colonists being Lieutenant Philip Gidley King and 15 convicts. Just above the Norfolk Island inset, another inset details Lord Howes Island. This small irregularly shaped island off the coast of New South Wales was discovered by the first wave of British colonists to enter the region in 1788. Though uninhabited until 1834, save for a large population of sea turtles, the Island's discovery was big news back in London – a fact on which Wilkinson was quick to capitalize. In general, this map offers good coastal detail, mostly gleaned from Cook's excellent maps, as well as some notations on geographical features further inland, including the Mt. Dromedary, Pidgeon House, The Three Brothers, Mt. Warning, The Glass Houses, and Mt. Upright. This map was engraved by T. Foot and issued as plate no. 40 in the 1792 edition of Robert Wilkinson's General Atlas . This is one of the earliest maps to detail the British colonization of New South Wales and was reissued with few changes in various atlases until about 1825. Size: Printed area measures 11 inches high by 9.5 inches wide. Condition: Very good. Original platemark visible. Blank on verso.
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  • Condition: Very good. Original platemark visible. Blank on verso.
  • Type: Map
  • Original/Reproduction: Original

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