History of Geography

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It took various shapes. We find its coast- line roughly coincident with the Antarctic Circle according to Leonardo da Vinci's globe constructed in 1515 ; this was at least a better estimate of its extent than that of Orontius of 1531, wherein the west of Terra Australis (" lately discovered but not yet fully known," as it is ingenuously labelled) approaches close to the southern American promontory about 55° S., runs thence eastward between 50 and 60° S. to the south of Africa, extends northwar...d to the latitude of southern Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, where the " region of Brazil " is found, and to the south-east of Malaysia reveals avast peninsula (Regio Patalis), which has suggested some obscure conception of the existence POLAR EXPLORATION TO THE 18TH CENTURY 83 of Australia. A little later, in the middle of the century, New Guinea took its place as a northward promontory of the southern continent, after the discovery of part of its coast by Inigo Ortis de Retes, a Spanish navigator.

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