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| Title: | Mercator's Southern Continent |
| Authors: | Richardson, W.A.R. |
| Keywords: | Maritime history
Maritime navigation
Cartography
Mapmaking
Australia
Bill Richardson |
| Issue Date: | 1992 |
| Publisher: | The Globe. The Australian Map Circle |
| Citation: | Richardson, W.A.R. 1992. Mercator's Southern Continent. The Globe, Special Issue, 37, 17-21. |
| Abstract: | The age-old concept that a vast southern landmass must of necessity exist to counterbalance that in the northern hemisphere was given graphic expression by many cartographers, including Ptolemy, Johannes Schoener and Oronce Fine, but undoubtedly the most famous one is that depicted by Gerard Mercator. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2328/25693 |
| ISSN: | 0811-9511 |
| Appears in Collections: | Published Works
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