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Image: Desceliers 1550 map - Australia detail

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Description: This is a detail from a 1550 world map by Pierre Desceliers, from the location where Australia would be, and purportedly showing Australian features. It is one of the Dieppe maps, which are commonly put forward as evidence for the theory that the Portuguese discovered Australia in the 16th century.
Title: Desceliers 1550 map - Australia detail
Credit: This is a cropped and colour-balanced scan of an 1898 facsimile of this detail, taken from the British Museum's copy of the original map. Access to it is available on the National Library of Australia's website, at http://nla.gov.au/nla.map-rm2057-5. The graphical user interface provided does not support downloading the full image at full resolution, but the back end can be cajoled to do so by manually editing the CGI arguments in the URL.
Author: Pierre Desceliers
Permission: This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer. You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/PDMCreative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0falsefalse The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain". This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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