Keywords: 1818 Pinkerton Map of Australia and New Zealand - Geographicus - AustraliaNewZealand-pinkerton-1818.jpg Truly a masterwork of copperplate engraving this is Pinkerton's extraordinary 1818 map of Australia New Zealand and parts of the East Indies and Polynesia Covers from Borneo south past Australia as far as Tasmania and New Zealand Pinkerton offers detail as he is able but in 1808 when this map was being composed this part of the world remained for the most part unexplored New Guinea New Zealand and Australia had around this time been mapped only tentatively and then only their coastlines In Southern Australia and New Guinea even this was vague as Pinkerton notes along the coast Very Imperfectly Known Only two significant islands are shown for New Zealand with Rakiura Island attached to the mainland All around Australia Pinkerton offers copious notations regarding the activities of various exploring missions to the region including P Nuyt Dinnings Edels C F De Witt Esdracht Dampier Van Diemen and others In Polynesia the New Hebrides New Caledonia Fiji Queen Charlottes Archipelago and the Solomon Islands are identified For the most part the interiors of all the lands herein depicted are unknown and consequently left blank Possibly the finest mapping of the region to appear in the first years 19th century Drawn by L Herbert and engraved by Samuel Neele under the direction of John Pinkerton This map comes from the scarce American edition of Pinkerton ™s Modern Atlas published by Thomas Dobson Co of Philadelphia in 1818 1818 undated Size in 27 5 20 5 object history credit line accession number AustraliaNewZealand-pinkerton-1818 Pinkerton J <i>A Modern Atlas from the Lates and Best Authorities Exhibiting the Various Divisions of the World with its chief Empires Kingdoms and States; in Sixty Maps carefully reduced from the Larges and Most Authentic Sources </i> 1818 Philadelphia Thomas Dobson Edition Geographicus-source PD-old-100 Maps by John Pinkerton Old maps showing history of Oceania 1818 maps Maps in English |