File:Desceliers 1550 map - Australia detail.jpg
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This is a detail from a 1550 world map by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pierre_Desceliers&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pierre Desceliers (page does not exist)">Pierre Desceliers</a>, from the location where Australia would be, and purportedly showing Australian features. It is one of the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dieppe_maps&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dieppe maps (page does not exist)">Dieppe maps</a>, which are commonly put forward as evidence for the theory that the Portuguese discovered Australia in the 16th century.
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| current | 09:11, 13 January 2017 | | 2,711 × 2,589 (1.1 MB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | <p>This is a detail from a 1550 world map by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Pierre_Desceliers&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pierre Desceliers (page does not exist)">Pierre Desceliers</a>, from the location where Australia would be, and purportedly showing Australian features. It is one of the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dieppe_maps&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Dieppe maps (page does not exist)">Dieppe maps</a>, which are commonly put forward as evidence for the theory that the Portuguese discovered Australia in the 16th century. </p> |
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