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The Tasman Map – Book Review
Ian Burnet, The Tasman Map – The Biography of a Map: Abel Tasman, the Dutch East India Company and the first Dutch Discoveries of Australia, Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd, 2019 Having grown up in Sydney, I can remember as a … Continue reading
The first appearance of the Spice Islands on a world map – the Atlas Miller (1519-1522)
Art and science join forces in the Portuguese atlas known as the Atlas Miller by the cartographers Lopo Homem, Pedro Reinel, Jorge Reinel and the miniaturist António de Holanda, which is one of the wonders of sixteenth-century Portuguese cartography. The … Continue reading
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Tagged atlas miller, banda, francisco rodrigues, francisco serrao, ian burnet, malacca, spice islands, ternate, tidore
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The site of the Alfred Russel Wallace house on Ternate identified
NEW EVIDENCE: Site of Alfred Russel Wallace’s House in Ternate Identified “Wallace’s Ternate house is the most important science history heritage site in Indonesia.” Ternate, Tuesday 3 September 2019 – Rinto Taib, Head of History and Cultural Heritage, Department of … Continue reading
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Soekarno, his exile in Ende and Pancasila
It was here in the Dutch Landraad courthouse in Bandung in 1930 that Soekarno gave his famous speech against colonialism, ‘Indonesia Menggugat’ or ‘Indonesia Accuses’ in the Dutch courtroom. Here he is along with his fellow accused and their lawyers. … Continue reading
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The Tasman Map – Abel Tasman, the Dutch East India Company and the first Dutch Discoveries of Australia
Coming to a bookshop near you – the story of the Tasman Map Every visitor who passes through the vestibule of the Mitchell Library stops to admire the magnificent marble mosaic of the Tasman Map which fills the entire vestibule … Continue reading
‘Where Australia Collides with Asia’ – The Darwin Earthquake
On June 24, Darwin was jolted by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake, prompting offices in the CBD to be evacuated. The epicentre was some 700 kilometres away to the north in the Banda Sea of Indonesia. But despite the distance, the … Continue reading
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Dragon’s Paradise Lost – Varanus komodoensis
I have always been curious whether the Komodo Dragon found on the island of Komodo, located between Sumbawa and Flores, is a large goanna (lizard) caused by island gigantisism or the last of the Australian megafauna, which we know … Continue reading
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