Great Southern Lands
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Map of the Southern Hemisphere (1790) |
Abel Klinger Globe (1860) | This extraordinary map of the southern hemisphere was engraved by one William Faden in 1790 and depicts the known land masses of the time – New Holland (later Australia), South America, southern Africa and Antarctica. The globe is younger, made around 1860, from the Nuremberg globe-making firm of Abel-Klinger, and possibly brought to New Zealand from Scotland not long after. Well, at least they knew how to find the place by then ...
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Join Dr Tom Trnski, Research Manager and John Early, Curator of Entomology and get closer to the stories, tales and historical information for this unique collection of objects.
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Explore Secrets Revealed objects and listen to their stories |
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