Captain Cook's Charting of New South Wales on the Coast of New Holland (Australia c1770)  E-mail this product to a friend

Captain Cook's charting of the East Coast of Australia.

A Chart of New South Wales or the East Coast of New Holland Discovered and Explored by Lieutenant J. Cook Commander of His Majesty’s Bark Endeavour in 1770.

Limited Edition reproduced from an original copperplate-engraved map by Benard, recording Cook’s navigational records from his charting of the east coast of the "great south land" (Australia) that the British Admiralty had commissioned him to find. On the first of his three voyages between 1768 and 1779, Captain James Cook discovered and charted the east coast of New Holland (as it was then known), & named it New South Wales.

This map has the coastline hand-tinted with watercolour.
[This Limited Edition chart is available black and white as printed ($20 + GST if applicable).]