Van Diemens Land, Furneaux 1773, showing the track of the Adventure, Cook's Second Voyage - hand coloured stretched canvas - ready to hang Tasmania based on Cook's map of

based on Cook's map of the region

as well as showing the tracks of Carteret

It is one of the earliest collectable maps of Australia to not include the Asian continent or the rest of the world

This map includes the coasts discovered and charted more than a century earlier by a series of Dutch navigators including Tasman (West Coast of New Zealand) and Janzoon (West Coast of Cape York Peninsula)

In the lower right corner

Van Diemens Land, Furneaux 1773, showing the track of the Adventure, Cook's Second Voyage - hand coloured stretched canvas - ready to hang Tasmania based on Cook's map ofOne of the very many charts to emerge from Cook's second voyage to the Pacific in 1772, this small chart displays the South and East coasts of Van Diemans Land (Tasmania). It incorporates the track of H. M. S. Adventure commanded by Lt. Furneaux, from the point of landfall near the present day Derwent River, up the East coast, then onward into the Pacific. Reproduced from the original chart, then hand coloured in the style of the period and digitally