Van Diemens Land, Evans 1821 - hand coloured stretched canvas - ready to hang Size:60x75 cm / 24x30″ to the fanciful North East

to the fanciful North East coast

Australia and the South Pacific

This land was actually the island of Vanuatu which is over one thousand miles from the Australian coast

framed with shatterproof plexiglass - ready to hang

He was continuing a search for the southern continent that had lasted centuries and would not be dampened until Cook’s second voyage in the far southern Pacific proved that no such great continent existed

Van Diemens Land, Evans 1821 - hand coloured stretched canvas - ready to hang Size:60x75 cm / 24x30″ to the fanciful North EastComplete map of Van Diemens Land drawn by the Surveyor General, G. W. Evans. First discovered by the Dutch navigator, Tasman in 1642, this coast appeared on maps of the region for more than 150 years nominally connected to the mainland until Bass and Flinders mapped Bass Strait in 1798, showing it to be an island. Reproduced from the original chart, then hand coloured in the style of the period and digitally printed on high quality 300gsm coated