Van Diemens Land, Furneaux 1773, showing the track of the Adventure, Cook's Second Voyage - hand coloured framed print - ready to hang antique This land was actually the

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

By 172O this was the latest geographical knowledge of the region

almost all provided by Dutch navigators in the employ of the Dutch East India Company (VOC)

In reality

Complete map of Van Diemens Land drawn by the Surveyor General

Van Diemens Land, Furneaux 1773, showing the track of the Adventure, Cook's Second Voyage - hand coloured framed print - ready to hang antique This land was actually theOne 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