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Title

[Polus Antarctics] [cartographic material] : .

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Item (linked) part of

America: Western Hemisphere - South [cartographic material] (R11981-4-3-E)

Date(s)

ca. 1680]

Place

[Amsterdam

Place of creation

Netherlands

Extent

1 map : b & w. ; 43.2 cm diam., on sheet 57.4 x 44.5 cm.

Scope and content

A circular map showing parts of South America, South Aftica, Madagascar, New Zealand, Van Diemens land (Tasmania) and the Islands of Amsterdam and Paulo. The polar continent is delineated partly by island chains and partly by lines.

Conditions of access

Cartographic material

90: Open
Original can beviewed in the presence of
an early cartographic archivist.

Item no. (creator)

Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection #144

Cartographic material

90: Open

Item no. assigned by LAC
144

90: Open

Archival reference no.

R11981-77-8-E

Other accession no.

80101/245 CA

Terms of use

Credit: Library and Archives Candada. Copyright expired.

Additional name(s)

Publisher: Wit, Frederick de, 1630-1706.

Additional information

This map appears to be a later state of the map originally published by Henricus Hondius in 1641 and later reissued by Joannis Janssonius. This state of the map lacks the two cartocuhes that appeared in earlier versions. It also has New Zealnd, Van Diemens Land and the Islands of Amsterdam and Paulo and without text on the verso.

The corners of the map are filled in with vignettes of naitve scenes including a representation of a penguin.

Relief shown by hachures and pictorially.

Physical condition note

Bottom border of map is missing. Map is also torn along fold line with adhesive tape applied to verso of map.

Custodial history

Part of the Alexander E. MacDonald Canadiana Collection purchased by the Public Archives of Canada in 1981.

Source of title

Title taken from R.V. Tooley's "Early Antarctica: A glance at the beginning of cartographic representation for the South Polar Regions" which appeared in the Map Collectors' Circle.

Citation / reference note

Tooley, R.V. "The Mapping of Australia", 1979, v.1, p.98, no 731.

Statement of responsibility note

Tooley attributed this state of the map to Frederick de Wit .

Subject heading

Antartica - Maps - Early works to 1800.

Source

Private

MIKAN no.

3715504