MAP
Polus Antarcticus [cartographic material] / Ioannes Ianssonius excudit.
- Date
- 1650
- By
- Hondius, Hendrik, 1597-1651, Jansson, Jan, 1588-1664
- Notes
South polar view map first published by H. Hondius in 1642.
Hemispherical map centred on the South Pole to the Tropic of Capricorn, includes part of Australian coastline. Relief shown pictorially.
Corners are filled with native scenes, including animals, birds and boats.
On verso: Le Pole Antarctique, avec les regions qui sont sous ice-lui, & les mers qui le baignent.
Globe, no. 54, p. 7 0311-3930
[3rd ed.].
Scale [ca. 1:36,000,000]
- Source URL
- https://ndhadeliver.natlib.govt.nz/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE343657
- Other Versions
- Digitised version: Polus Antarcticus
- Publisher
- [Amsterdam : Jan Jansson, ca. 1650]
- Format
- 1 map : hand col. ; 43 cm. diam. on sheet 47 x 57 cm.
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